Quotes About Sovereignty

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Great men can't be ruled.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

Goddamn, so this is what it means to have a leader You despise, the racists said when the president Was black and I'll be damned if I ain't saying it too. Is this a mandate for whiteness, virility, sovereignty, Stupidity, an idiot's threats & gangsta narcissisms threading Every shabby sentence his trumpet constructs?

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

Heaven. He can bring down any nation He wants to bring down in one night—anytime He wants.

But this isn't about sports competition. It's about the rejection of what God determines for a person at conception. Put another way, these are creatures saying to the Creator that their impossible and diabolical choices are valid and that God's sovereignty is not. Such a person implies that God made a mistake, that they are angry with Him for that mistake, and that they will

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free