Quotes About Sovereignty

God is great enough that he can conduct his affairs in this way. His nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate. And if he chooses to deal with humanity in such a way that he will occasionally think it appropriate, that is just fine.

God's sovereignty is not an invitation to passivity. Instead, it is a call to wise and risky creativity.

Orang yang mengatakan bahwa kekuasaan tidak memunculkan kecanduan pasti belum benar-benar berkuasa

We were gods then. But even gods must descend from their high thrones upon occasion.

Today there is a growing struggle over sovereignty in the South China Sea—over who controls the Spratlys, as well as another island group closer to China and Vietnam called the Paracels, and other tiny "land features" that barely jut out from the waves—and indeed the sea itself.

The Republic of China, founded in 1912, was supposed to modernize the country and regain sovereignty. But by the beginning of the 1930s, China had degenerated into a fragmented country. Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists and heir to the Republic of China, was fighting both warlords and Communists. In 1931, the Japanese seized control of Manchuria, where a substantial part of China's industry was located, and breached the Great Wall.

without the naval power to counter the French advance, "the Chinese government," as one historian has written, turned to warriors of another kind—"its mapmakers."6 Various maps were promulgated between 1933 and 1935 that asserted Chinese sovereignty into the South China Sea, reaching almost a thousand miles from the Chinese mainland

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.

To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm: That is the top of sovereignty.

When the Duke of Wei offered him the prime ministry he dismissed the royal messengers with a curtness indicative of a writer's dreams: "Go away quickly, and do not soil me with your presence. I had rather amuse and enjoy myself in a filthy ditch than be subject to the rules and restrictions in the court of a sovereign.

But you don't make people safe by giving up their most basic rights What good is being safe if we have no freedom. - Mike

If I lived in North Korea, I'd want my own army, too.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

IN A WORLD STILL RULED BY KINGS, President George Washington's decision to not seek a third term clearly signaled that the United States would be governed by the people, not any ruler-for-life.

Prussia," remarked Mirabeau, "is not a state with an army, but an army with a state.

niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

immutable laws of God Almighty

In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI – who had come to see the turmoil and conflict that had convulsed the world in recent decades as symptoms of the deep moral malaise that had afflicted Western society since the time of the Enlightenment, with its corrosive doctrines of rights and popular sovereignty.