Quotes About Sovereignty

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions - Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party - agree that we are better off in Europe.

Governing through federal ultimatum grates against our history, traditions, and, most importantly, our Constitution.

Parliamentary sovereignty - the right to pass laws as the supreme legal authority in the land, including laws that limit the powers of the executive - has been hard-won over hundreds of years. We trample on it at our peril.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

Europe started very well in the 1950s with a trading bloc but it became a political project, and we transferred sovereignty to them. If you don't know what you are - and this is the intention of the E.U. elites - you don't know what you're not either. We should regain our sovereignty again.

Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They want to transform France into a giant squat.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they were incorruptible, if not good at all, there were nothing in them to be corrupted. For corruption injures, but unless it diminished goodness, it could not injure.

Nevertheless power and domination are not given even to such men save by the providence of the most high God, when He judges that the state of human affairs is worthy of such lords.

He who created you without you will not justify you without you.

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

Meine Bücherei ist mein Königreich, und hier versuche ich als absoluter Herrscher zu regieren.

Only the man who remains free from all and everything augments and sustains freedom on this earth.

Elizabeth set an example to the monarchs of her day and of subsequent epochs, in that she never arrogated to herself the position of ruler of England, but assumed the more modest role of administrator, of carrier-out of the folk-will, of servitor to the national mission; she understood the trends of the epoch that was emerging from an autocratic regime into a constitutional regime.

La prego, non si disturbi... l'unico diritto umano che alla fine ti resta è quello di crepare come credi... senza essere scocciato dall'aiuto altrui.

Solo colui che riesce a mantenere la propria libertà rispetto a tutto e a tutti, conserva e moltiplica la libertà sulla terra.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

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.

To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion