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Quotes About Sovereignty

The earth you subdue becomes your kingdom
~ Sunday Adelaja
Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!
~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Somehow human authority is never enough
~ we must have special effects.
The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.
~ Marine Le Pen
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
~ Yoweri Museveni
What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.
~ Doug Stanhope
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.
~ Yoweri Museveni
The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.
~ Shinzo Abe
The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Fair is whatever God wants to do.
~ Leif Enger
I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.
~ John Piper
Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.
~ Bill Hicks
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
~ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.
~ Tony Blair
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
~ Stephen Colbert
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
~ Stephen Colbert
Expansion presented the United States with a dilemma that has confronted many colonial powers. If it allowed democracy to flower in the countries it controlled, those nations would begin acting in accordance with their own interests rather than the interests of the United States, and American influence over them would diminish.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
~ Stephen Kinzer
On December 4, 1972, President Salvador Allende of Chile told the United Nations General Assembly that his country would "no longer tolerate the subordination implied by having more than eighty percent of its exports in the hands of a small group of large foreign companies.
~ Stephen Kinzer
In a ravenous fifty-five-day spasm during the summer of 1898, the United States asserted control over five far-flung lands with a total of 11 million inhabitants: Guam, Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Never in history has a nation leaped so suddenly to overseas empire. At
~ Stephen Kinzer
Countries that have the power to interfere in foreign lands almost always do so.
~ Stephen Kinzer
free State" is not some elusive "collective" that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Webster defined "free" in part as follows: "In government, not enslaved; not in a state of vassalage or dependence; subject only to fixed laws, made by consent, and to a regular administration of such laws; not subject to the arbitrary will of a sovereign or lord; as a free state, nation or people.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead