Quotes About Sovereign

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Scotland resented the foreign domination of England.

In simple terms, John 13:18-19 records Jesus as telling them about the betrayal that is about to occur. He wants them to know about the event beforehand, so that when the betrayal occurs, they will realize that Jesus predicted that betrayal in his capacity of being God incarnate, using his sovereign omniscience and omnipotence to superintend the events of his own execution.

A state is a sovereign political entity like the United Kingdom, Kenya, Panama, or New Zealand, eligible for membership in the United Nations and inclusion on the maps produced by Rand McNally or the National Geographic Society. A nation is a group of people who share—or believe they share—a common culture, ethnic origin, language, historical experience, artifacts, and symbols.

It began in 1784, when people in the western territories of North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) became disgusted with Tidewater control. Their solution was pure Borderlander: they created their own sovereign State of Franklin on nobody's permission but their own. They drafted a constitution that prohibited lawyers, clergy, and doctors from running for office, set up a government in the village of Greeneville, and passed laws making apple brandy, animal skins, and tobacco legal tender.

The night is the exemplification of our sovereign Fatima, especially the "Night of Destiny" (laylat al-Qadr).

The 'man' from 'Sarman' relates to heredity, or a particular family. It also refers to the receptacle of an heirloom. The 'Sar' of 'Sarman' is defined as 'head.' In this sense, the 'head' is meant both literally as a part of the body, and in the meaning of elder one or master. Therefore, we may tentatively conclude that 'Sarman' means 'The Sovereign Receptacle of the Sacred.' Or, an alternative reading would be 'Those Whose Heads are Priceless.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

One of the greatest kings that ever was

Here on a frontier back road more than half a century before the Civil War, two different, racialized definitions of sovereign liberty faced off against each other. The first, represented by Jackson, imagined "free born" to mean white born and "liberty" to mean the ability to do whatever they wanted, including to buy and sell humans and move them, unrestrained by interior frontiers, across a road that by treaty belonged to an indigenous nation.

las costumbres antiguas de la sociedad mexicana encontraron sustitutos monárquicos en Agustín de Iturbide (1822), en Maximiliano de Habsburgo (1863) y en distintos caudillos providenciales, como Santa Anna, quien llenó tantas veces la falta de soberano de la nueva nación, entre 1828 y 1854.

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

You may agree or not with Gaddafi's political ideas, but no one has the right to question the existence of Libya as an independent state and member of the United Nations.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

We come by aurora, with a heavy and sovereign tread, with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders, with the apricity of light to crown our heads

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

In fact for the Founders, under the natural law, even a sovereign people were accountable to God's judgment and had the duty to act in accord with the moral order of creation. As

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our sucess; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements. He demands our obedience.