Quotes About Sovereignty

If you wish to be truly free, you must love no one.

The fate of every nation rests in its own power.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance…. The Union, sir, is my country.

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

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

postcolonial" countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably

Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient authority to sustain universality. The concept of sovereignty and the legal equality of states became the basis of international law and diplomacy. China, by contrast, was never engaged in sustained contact with another country on the basis of equality for the simple reason that it never encountered societies of comparable culture or magnitude.

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies

Era um sistema velho de milénios – vigorava já quando o Império Romano governou toda a Europa como unidade – e baseado não na igualdade soberana dos Estados, mas na presumível ausência de limite à soberania do imperador.

Quando os Estados não são governados em toda a sua extensão é a própria ordem internacional ou regional que começa a desintegrar-se.

The primary principle of the Calvinistic system of thought is the direct and absolute sovereignty of God over all things. Such sovereignty is not one among the many attributes of God, but it comes to expression in all of His attributes.

Religion based on divine sovereignty is religion for God's sake. Religion is for God, for whom all things exist. Whereas all forms of Arminianistic Christianity make man the final arbiter of his own salvation, in Calvinism, God saves sovereignly, immediately, whom He wills.

Once there is no freedom, there is no man

If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,

The hearts of kings are in the hands of God.

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

The kingdom of God is not a geographic domain with set boundaries and settled decrees, but a set of relationships in which Christ is sovereign. At the table, Jesus moves us from ideas about life and love to actual living and loving.

The reign of God is his reign over all things.

A Fillory without a god. It was a radical notion. But he thought about it, and it didn't seem like a terrible one. They would be on their own this time - the kings, the queens, the people, the animals, the spirits, the monsters. They'd have to decide what was right and just and fair for themselves.

Bingle shot Quentin a glance to the effect of, you have no idea how to be a king, literally none. The