Quotes About Sovereignty

I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I

We should be men first, and subjects afterward.

This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.

That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—That government is best which governs not at all; and

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves—the union between themselves and the State—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?

For as Alexander Hamilton pointed out in the Federalist Papers nearly two centuries ago, "A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you.

We ought always to assume that God loves us and is in control of our world.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Leave the euro? Surely yes.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

We do not want to live under the yoke of the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

I don't like travelling in groups. I like doing my own thing. I am quite a loner, actually.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.