Quotes About Sovereignty

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.

The English constitution, in a word, is framed on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority, and making it good: the American, upon the principle of having many sovereign authorities, and hoping that their multitude may atone for their inferiority.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

As always when he went abroad, Jonathan regarded the German passport officers with a degree of wistfulness. Soon he would be placing himself under foreign sovereignty, a guest; he would have to hold his tongue instead of being allowed to demonstrate his superiority. When you'd started a world war, murdered Jews and taken people's bicycles away (in Holland) the cards were stacked against you.

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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer within him burnd,As home his footsteps he hath turnd,From wandering on a foreign strand!

Language, like woman, Look best when free, undressed.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and cry for help?

We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

External vigilance is the price of liberty.

God is holding this planet, I'm wondering when he decides to let go.

There is no army greater than an unarmed united people defending a country.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment—Independence now and Independence forever.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

The sea hath no king but God alone.