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Quotes About Sovereign

The "Extranational" Age Ahead As the era of the "Sovereign Individual" takes shape, many of the ablest people will cease to think of themselves as party to a nation, as "British" or "American" or "Canadian."' A new "transnational" or "extranational" understanding of the world and a new way of identifying one's place in it await discovery in the new millennium.
~ James Dale Davidson
A teacher expressed the feeling of many Americans: After Watergate, it's crazy to have trust in politicians. I'm totally cynical, skeptical. Whether it's a question of power or influence, it's who you know at all levels. Nixon said he was the sovereign! Can you believe that? I was indignant. Someone should have told him that this is a democracy, not a monarchy.32
~ James T. Patterson
on 5th May, 1955, the Federal Republic became a fully sovereign state.
~ Aidan Crawley
The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.
~ Al Gore
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
~ Randy Alcorn
The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Bonilla and Christmas, working with Zemurray, were able to frame the war as an insurgency, the people rising up against a government selling the nation to gringos and Yankee bankers, whereas what you really had was more sinister and interesting—a battle waged by a private American citizen, a corporate chief, against a debt-ridden but sovereign nation.
~ Rich Cohen
The conviction that religion must be rigorously excluded from political life has been called the charter myth of the sovereign nation-state.
~ Karen Armstrong
His Majesty has always been a powerful man. Perhaps he has never had to distinguish between the two.
~ Alison Goodman
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.
~ James Chanos
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
~ E.C. Riegel
Greatest god below the sky.
~ Edmund Spenser
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Who is the spring of living water? The Sovereign Lord.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
~ Robert A. Burton
Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.
~ Hun Sen
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.
~ Joseph Farah
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
~ Roger Williams
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
~ Andrew Jackson