Quotes About Sovereignty

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

There are two kinds of homeland: one that is given is like a negative, and one that you have to conquer is like the positive.

Through all life changes, God is in control.

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.