Quotes About Sovereignty

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.

No one is a cup for another to drink from.

I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?

It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

The coming wave of automation will move way beyond the factory or public infrastructure and into our very biological processes such as aging and even giving birth. Used as we are to the gradual societal shifts brought about by previous change waves, often allowing decades to adjust and respond, I ask if we as a tribe are ready to abdicate our human sovereignty to the faceless forces of technology? Are you ready for the biggest loss of free will and individual human control in history?

bitterest pills for modern man to swallow: the problem of divine sovereignty as it is expressed particularly in the doctrine of predestination.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

Monarchies conform best to human nature and therefore constitute the most durable form of state.

No one could ever create the Heaven and the Earth. He is the only one who has done so. The great God of all Creation.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary mantle of sovereignty know that their turn may come to be branded a criminal by their colleagues. We certainly will not be the ones to complain. For the sovereign, who freely consented to donning the executioner's clothes, is now finally manifesting his originary kinship with the criminal.

What our investigation has shown is that the real problem, the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police—that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.

That there is no autonomous space in the political order of the nation-state for something like the pure human in itself is evident at the very least from the fact that, even in the best of cases, the status of refugee has always been considered a temporary condition that ought to lead either to naturalization or to repatriation. A stable statute for the human in itself is inconceivable in the law of the nation-state.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Ni para Dios ni para mí hay reyes ni vasallos, sino sólo hombres y mujeres. Tampoco hay Estados, ni monarquías. Todo eso lo habéis inventado vosotros, y pretendéis involucrarnos en vuestras peleas. Pero, para nosotros, no hay hugonotes ni católicos, ni hay cristianos ni turcos, sino hombres de buena o mala voluntad. Los de mala voluntad son los que a mí me tocan, y ya estoy harto.

In 1956 the Eisenhower administration used its creditor powers to pressure Britain to withdraw from the Suez Canal and hand it over to Egypt. The U.S. is in danger of giving similar power to China.8