Quotes About Sovereignty

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?

You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

A man is either free or he is not.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.