Quotes About Sovereignty

Real self-respect comes from dominion over self, from true independence.

You are really and truly and completely free.

One of the dangers of "self-determination" is that there is really no such thing as a "nation" in the sense of an ethnocultural group that coincides with a patch of real estate. Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

I love liberty, I hate equality.

All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

What if there are hundreds of lobsters, all trying to make a living and raise a family, in the same crowded patch of sand and refuse? Other creatures have this problem, too. When songbirds come north in the spring, for example, they engage in ferocious territorial disputes. The songs they sing, so peaceful and beautiful to human ears, are siren calls and cries of domination. A brilliantly musical bird is a small warrior proclaiming his sovereignty.

sheer physical power is an unstable basis on which to found lasting dominance,

That is a very difficult question. It is, on the one hand, the question of value: What is of the highest importance? It is, on the other hand, the question of sovereignty: What principle should rule?

Injértese en nuestras Repúblicas el mundo; pero el tronco ha de ser el de nuestras Repúblicas. Y

y el buen gobernante en América no es el que sabe cómo se gobierna el alemán o el francés, sino el que sabe con qué elementos está hecho su país

A soberania do indivíduo não qualificado, do indivíduo humano genérico e enquanto tal, passou de idéia ou ideal jurídico que era, a ser um estado psicológico constitutivo do homem médio.

Federación es unión de soberanías independientes, para formar entre ellas un Estado, que reconocía esas soberanías previas.

Walang mang-aalipin kung walang paaalipin.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.