Quotes About Sovereignty

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.

Nuestros dones son pequeños, pero amistosos, pues la naturaleza de los siervos es tener siempre miedo cuando dominan nuevos soberanos.

no es un bien la soberanía de muchos; uno solo sea príncipe, uno solo rey: aquél a quien el hijo del artero Crono ha dado cetro y leyes para que reine sobre nosotros.

Aldous Huxley: "Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. —John Milton, Paradise Lost

I am allergic to almost every form of international agency, conference or committee.

The world is too public. These things can only be secured in privacy. You talk of kings and presidents. How much power do they possess? As much as their people will allow them. Who in the world has the power of life or death over his people? Now that Stalin is dead, can you name any man except myself? And how do I possess that power, that sovereignty? Through privacy. Through the fact that nobody knows. Through the fact that I have to account to no one.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

If terrorism tries to dent the security of this country and its sovereignty, we will give it a befitting reply.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

I truly believe in the bright future that awaits us once we leave the E.U.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.

We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.