Quotes About Sovereignty

If you believe you're a nation, then I accept you as a nation.

The No. 1 purpose of the federal government is national defense.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

What we're going to do is have an immigration system that's in our national interest, and that's not what we've had up until now, We've had freedom of movement, which means we haven't been in control of who enters our country - those individuals have, just because of their nationality. And that's going to change.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

I think that most people are natural libertarians.

If we must be extinguished, let it be on our own terms.

I never been one to favor laws.

Even here, even now, one did not joke about the Emperor.

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.

All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command. Emperors and kings Are but obey'd in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man! A sound magician is a mighty god.

YOUNGER MORTIMER: Fear'd am I more than lov'd; - let me be fear'd, And, when I frown, make all the court look pale.

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and consume them in his rage, That not a man should live to rue their fall.