A nation, like any other group, is only a number of individuals and can have no
rights other than the rights of its individual citizens. A free nation—a
nation that recognizes, respects and protects the individual rights of its
citizens—has a right to its territorial integrity, its social system and its
form of government. The government of such a nation is not the ruler, but the
servant or agent of its citizens and has no rights other than the rights
delegated to it by the citizens for a specific, delimited task (the task of
protecting them from physical force, derived from their right of self-defense)
. . . .
Such a nation has a right to its sovereignty (derived from the rights of its
citizens) and a right to demand that its sovereignty be respected by all other
nations.
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi
Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba or any other
slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own
self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent “rights” of gang rulers. It
is not a free nation’s duty to liberate other nations at the price of
self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so
chooses.