Quotes About Sovereignty

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.

So rather than repent of sin and turn for mercy to a God who is altogether sovereign, holy, knowing, and unchangeable, men and women suppress what knowledge they have and refuse to seek out that additional knowledge that could be the salvation of their souls.

There are no rules that require us to obey rules. If there were, there would have to be a rule for those rules, and so on.

nature allows no master over itself.

I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

We Francji jest Francja, w Ameryce Ameryka, w Niemczech sÄ… Niemcy i nawet w Czechach sÄ… Czechy, a tylko w Polsce jest Polska.

If they thought their sovereignty worth keeping, the handful of lords who divided Scotland between them must unite. And unite before religious division caught and struck them apart for ever.

You promise food and horses and nonresistance and when they invade, you do or don't lick their boots according to the thickness of your walls and the kind of conscience you have.

A queen does not need to be crowned,' said Güzel, 'in order to rule.

THRONES, DOMINATIONS

our lot is to fear God and find our contentment in his providence

Adenauer was to work unremittingly for the reassumption of sovereignty by elected German representatives, he realised the necessity of working with rather than against the Allies. In the last resort he had already made up his mind where the best hope for his country lay.

When things all around us are bleak, the Word gives us the opposite message: God is sovereign and will work his purposes out through the apparent setbacks. This

What would happen, Reshmina wondered, if the big countries stopped selling weapons to the little countries?

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!"19 If the world and everything in it belong to God and come under his direct claim over them in and through Jesus, then there can be no sphere of life that is not radically open to the rule of God. There can be no non-God area in our lives and in our culture.

The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

The little slogan, "Let go, and let God," is not what the New Testament teaches—at least that is only part of the truth, for the act of total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ is but the beginning of a new régime in your heart. No longer is the puppet king Self upon the throne, but the great King of kings and Lord of lords has stepped in to take over the government of your life.

We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

One of our pillars has to be national security - our nation's security both domestically and abroad.