National Power Quotes

“National sovereignty, since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, had been considered as absolute in theory. When it was combined with national power, as the case of the USSR, it was absolute. National sovereignty buttressed by real national power could be bound or regulated only by two things: a sense of responsibility, or a fear of consequences.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

“But because, in 1943, there was a deep awareness in official circles that the West had been saved more by ships and guns than it's principles, there was a tacit acceptance that the prime mover in the world was national power.”
― T. R. Fehrenbach