Quotes About Sovereignty

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?

The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Sovereigntism and separatism they are... it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

The Jew bows before no man only God

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.