Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
Drift is the demon of democracy.
The worst of being sacked is you can never find your car.
No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.