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Quotes About Sovereign

It is a weak sovereign that has weak subjects; and a weak people whose sovereign wanteth power to rule them at his will.
~ Thomas Hobbes
The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new is that nothing means anything.
~ Thomas Howard
The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.
~ Thomas Sowell
All truth meets at the top. This is so because all truth is God's truth. It is not only His truth because He possesses it and He yields sovereign control over it, but also because He is the source and fountainhead of all truth. He is the source of all truth not only because all truth derives from Him but because He is the necessary condition for all apprehension of truth.
~ Keith A. Mathison
In order to free the fiction of the sovereign State – in other words, the whims of those who manipulate it – from every wholesome restriction, all sociopolitical movements tending in this direction invariably try to cut the ground from under the religions. For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
~ C.G. Jung
Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
That kings should be philosophers, or philosophers kings is neither to be expected nor to be desired, for the possession of power inevitably corrupts reason's free judgment. However, that kings or sovereign peoples (who rule themselves by laws of equality) should not allow the class of philosophers to disappear or to be silent, but should permit them to speak publicly is indispensable to the enlightenment of their affairs.
~ Immanuel Kant
No nation shall forcibly interfere with the constitution and government of another.
~ Immanuel Kant
I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.
~ Helen Clark
So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
~ Robert Mugabe
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
~ Joe Wallace
Turkey is a sovereign state, just like the U.S. We might go to different directions, in terms of our impressions and ideas, but we'll always remain friends.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.
~ Sergei Ivanov
Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.
~ Jaroslaw Kaczynski
It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.
~ Thomas Chalmers
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
~ Albert Einstein
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.
~ Edward Gibbon
Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.
~ Susan Howe
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
~ Harry S Truman
Israel is a sovereign state. If you decide on your capital city, we will act in accordance.
~ Jair Bolsonaro
Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.
~ William Godwin
Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
~ Ambrose Bierce