Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A nation is the same people living in the same place.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
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