Quotes About Sovereignty

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here or shall she not?

My mind is my kingdom.

Listen, here is the law! I am the law!

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

Theologically speaking, we believed in an absolutely powerful omnipotent and sovereign Lord. But in practice, our God had to be begged and encouraged to carry out the simplest tasks, for instance to keep moving the hearts of the local Swiss authorities to renew our residency permits. How

The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.

Resorting to technical language means you are determined to treat the masses as uninitiated. Such language is a poor front for the lecturer's intent to deceive the people and leave them on the sidelines. Language's endeavor to confuse is a mask behind which looms an even greater undertaking to dispossess. The intention is to strip the people of their possessions as well as their sovereignty. You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand.

No leader, no matter how valuable he may be, can substitute himself for the popular will; and the national government, before concerning itself about international prestige, ought first to give back their dignity to all citizens, fill their minds and feast their eyes with human things, and create a prospect that is human because human consciousness and sovereign men dwell therein.

The enemy digs in. The great showdown is not for today or for tomorrow. In fact it began on the very first day, and will not end with the demise of the enemy but quite simply when the latter has come to realize, for a number of reasons, that it is in his interest to terminate the struggle and acknowledge the sovereignty of the colonized people.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

An emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Power is paradoxical.

Welcome , Ruin said, to godhood .

The Hero of Ages shall be not a man, but a force. No nation may claim him, no woman shall keep him, and no king may slay him. He shall belong to none, not even himself.

When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.

May you rule in wisdom.

You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.

With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.

Quae quondam rerum naturam sola gubernas.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted.