Quotes About Sovereignty

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do

The man is free who is protected from injury.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.