"This is the vanity of every principality—and notable for a nation—that the principality is sovereign in history; which is to say, that it presumes it is the power in relation to which the moral significance of everything and everyone else is determined."
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William Stringfellow, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land (1973), p. 51
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