Quotes About Sovereignty

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

Your government is no longer mine.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

Cujus regio, ejus religio (Whose region it is, his is the religion).

The main point that nullification addresses is that a government allowed to determine the scope of its own powers cannot remain limited for long.

A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings.

When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?

For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;

The greatest objection is, that of the Practise; when men ask, where, and when, such Power has by Subjects been acknowledged. But one may ask them again, when, or where has there been a Kingdome long free from Sedition and Civill Warre. In those Nations, whose Commonwealths have been long-lived, and not been destroyed, but by forraign warre, the Subjects never did dispute of the Soveraign Power.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Any Government strong enough to give you what you want, is a Government strong enough to take everything you have!

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms

My general plan would be to make the states one as to every thing connected with foreign nations, and several as to every thing purely domestic. But with all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing or that ever did exist.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Todavía doy importancia a mi libertad, o al menos a ese resto de libertad y dignidad humana que aún conservamos.

Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.

If God is truly sovereign, and I believe He is, then whatever stage we are in in life is exactly where God has allowed us to be.

There is a purpose in everything that God allows. Second