Quotes About Sovereignty

When God's wise and loving rule over you is replaced with self-rule, other people become your subjects.

Our purpose is to get what we want, but God's purpose is to give us what we really need.

People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both. You

Most governments, most of the time, seek to monopolize violence. If only the government can legitimately use force, and this use is constrained by law, then the forms of politics that we take for granted become possible.

statehood was crucial to future national existence.

The likelihood that Jews would be sent to their deaths depended upon the durability of institutions of state sovereignty and the continuity of prewar citizenship. These structures created the matrix within which individual choices were made, the constraints upon those who did evil, and the possibilities for those who wished to do good.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

It makes no sense to have oil if to get it out you have to let the multinationals come and take it.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

It is not acceptable for one country to change the borders of another by force.

My deep belief in one word? Dominance.

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking themselves by what right these aliens had overrun British soil. An ever-growing feeling of annoyance had begun to lay hold of the nation.

En el Congreso de Tres Cruces, el 5 de abril de 1813, Artigas expresó ante la multitud reunida: "Mi autoridad emana de vosotros y ella cesa ante vuestra presencia soberana", es decir reconocía que el poder era del pueblo y que él era solo el delegado.

Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion—in men's souls. It

invested with the dignity of possession.

Conroy writes that, while part of him was following the basketball game from the bench, the other part, an embassy of a completely sovereign nation, would fling its doors open to the most authentic part of me.

God's own "kingdom," or "rule," is the range of his effective will, where what he wants done is done. The person of God himself and the action of his will are the organizing principles of his kingdom, but everything that obeys those principles, whether by nature or by choice, is within his kingdom.

Our "kingdom" is simply the range of our effective will. Whatever we genuinely have the say over is in our kingdom.