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Quotes About Sovereignty

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.
~ Bulent Ecevit
I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.
~ Neil Bush
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
~ Hillary Clinton
Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.
~ Ayelet Shaked
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
~ Norman Finkelstein
If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia, for example, I do not see any other way but to respond in accordance with international law.
~ Sergei Lavrov
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.
~ Susan George
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way.
~ Ayelet Shaked
I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.
~ Moshe Sharett
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
~ Michele Bachmann
America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.
~ Ro Khanna
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Can we not see that without God, government always steps in to fill the vacuum and where there is more government there is always less freedom?
~ Everett Piper
We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
You don't liberate a country standing on the soil of another.
~ Fadia Faqir
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
~ Felix Salten
What do you want? What do you know about it? What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful. He's above all of you. Everything we have comes from Him. Everything that lives or grows comes from Him.
~ Felix Salten
La Corée a été victime de sa singulière position stratégique, entre l'archipel japonais, la Mandchourie, la Sibérie et la Chine. Elle est l'exemple des dangers qui menacent les petits États au voisinage des grands qui se croient tout permis à leur endroit, aujourd'hui comme hier. Elle a comme l'Italie le malheur d'être un chemin naturel.
~ Fernand Braudel
The only freedom the gods grant usIs this: to submitOf our own free will to their sovereignty.We should do just that,Since only in the illusion of freedomDoes freedom exist.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I wish they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man," she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.
~ Fiona Shaw
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
~ Florence King
They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask only that we be permitted to decide upon these plans for ourselves; that we not be forced to accept them, directly or indirectly, if we find them to be contrary to our best interests or repugnant to our consciences.
~ Frederic Bastiat
And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?
~ Frederic Bastiat