Quotes About Sovereignty

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Scotland resented the foreign domination of England.

The triumph of the doctrine of the sovereignty of sentiment over sense would have delighted the Romantics, no doubt, but it has promoted an unconscionable amount of misery.

In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.

Instead of defining a few rights, Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 84, "Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations.

Yo penetro los secretos; y sé que te conviene mucho para tu bien, que algunas veces te deje desconsolado; para que no te ensoberbezcas en los sucesos prósperos, ni quieras complacerte en ti mismo por lo que no eres. Lo que yo te di, te lo puedo quitar, y volvértelo cuando me agradare.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Put an end to talk on dividing Jerusalem. There can be no negotiations about Jerusalem.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

I don't want a wall being built around the Netherlands.

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

The joke newspaper, it says Canada abandons the monarchy.

I have no interest in Israeli citizenship... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.

He thinks that if we leave the E.U. he's going to be earning a lot more.

AB'ACOT, noun The cap of State, formerly used by English Kings, wrought into the figure of two crowns.

Candor is entirely in order: only the most devilish anti-American, after all, could question our right to act as suits our fancy. If, say, we choose to invade some defenseless country to capture one of our agents who no longer follows orders, and then try him for crimes committed while on our payroll, who could question the majesty of our system of justice? True, the UN did, but our veto took care of that childish tantrum.

Ho sempre considerato la sfera del diritto e quella della politica come due facce della stessa medaglia. Il mondo delle regole e il mondo del potere: il potere che crea le regole, le regole che trasformano il potere di fatto in un potere di diritto.

NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man.