Quotes About Sovereignty

Not like other countries, we will never ask anyone to fight for us.

We must make it clear that we won't interfere in other countries' elections and work to make that the clear international norm.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.

All of the land of Israel is ours.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Vast and implacable, like a kraken of the deep undisturbed by storms raging across the ocean surface, the apparatus of empire still coiled its prodigious tentacles, ready to flex and squeeze its victims tightly, as it had ever done.

In Fourth Generation war, the state loses its monopoly on war. All over the world,

In Fourth Generation war, invasion by immigration can be at least as dangerous as invasion by a state army.

As with national revolutions elsewhere, both peoples in Palestine tended to put nationalism above democracy and human rights.

If you own yourself, you own the world.

I've said all along that God is in control.

It has nothing to do with whether you like God's rules. It's not your kingdom. If you want to operate by your own rules, then you need to go out and create your own world. But as long as you are in God's world, where God has set the rules, you must abide by His rules or you become a rebel against His kingdom government.

I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.

and hand back my throne.

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

As you know very well,' said Stephen, 'I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. But I too am a naval officer, brother; long, long ago you taught me that anyone nourished on ship's biscuit must learn to choose the lesser of two weevils. On