Quotes About Sovereignty

The Lord doesn't need anything "special" from you or me. He certainly doesn't need our counsel. When He sovereignly chooses you to do something great, He doesn't need your advice on how to go about it.

Mark it down in permanent ink: God is always at work.

Nothing touches me that doesn't first pass through the hands of my Heavenly Father, nothing.

War made the state, and the state made war

Nothing puzzles God

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that a Biafran plane landed in another African country, and the pilot and all of the crew came out, and there was not a white man among them. The people of this other country—which is a stooge of France—couldn't comprehend a plane being landed without any white people. They said, "Where is the pilot? Where are the white people?" They arrested the crew, presuming there had been a rebellion in the air!

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

God has never sat around biting his nails, wondering what Hitler and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein were going to do.

every woman's mind is her kingdom. Rule it wisely, lassie.

I really don't need anyone to come to Mississippi to generate a vote for me.

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

I don't see how there is anyone, after God, who has more power than me in the country.

Liberty is the most important thing.

But to argue, like Filmer, Tribe, Sunstein, and Bork, that government comes first, and that it gives people freedom when it wills, and for its own purposes, is, as Locke concluded, the same as saying "that no man is born free.

He was master of all he surveyed. At least that was the phrase that came to mind, and with all such aphorisms it could be both true and false at the same time.

For a thousand years, without an army or a navy, Iceland had never been attacked.

As a result, no nation-state today dared even to contemplate an attack on America.

Don't bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.