Quotes About Sovereignty

We will do much more for the happiness of the lower classes," utopian socialist Victor Considerant wrote, "for their real emancipation and true progress, in guaranteeing these classes well-remunerated work, than in winning political rights and a meaningless sovereignty for them. The most important of the people's rights is the right to work.

For the present, can Taiwan remain democratic without becoming formally independent? In the future could Taiwan be democratic without remaining actually independent?

Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az es?nek ?k sem tudnak parancsolni.

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.

do not faint; the wicked may hold the bitter cup to your head, but God mixeth it, and there is no poison in it. They strike, but God moves the rod; Shimei curseth, but it is because the Lord bids him.

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

I think we can build democracy in Pakistan. But it will take time. And it will be a Pakistani democracy. Not one that's imposed by...someone else.

I am in control at all times.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

Además de sabio y modesto, fue un gran liberal. Esto, claro, nos enorgullece a quienes creemos que la doctrina liberal es el símbolo de la cultura democrática —la de la tolerancia, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, la soberanía individual y la legalidad—, el buque insignia de la civilización.

If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.

Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well—as both a day and an attitude—we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God's sovereignty, we won't dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we'll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.

Applied globally, political correctness obliges us to forswear sovereignty.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Come down and have a glass of brandy-and-water, and leave the people alone for the present. The people can take care of themselves a great deal better than we can take care of them.