Quotes About Sovereignty

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

Between the collapse of the utopian ideology of God's kingship on the one hand and the refusal to deify the king on the other, a semiautonomous sphere of human politics was born. God is not the king, and the king will be accepted only so long as he renounces all claims to be a god.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check.

Yet, after all, we are not wedded to a "royal prerogative," and it is the American concept that sovereignty rests, not in government, but in the people.

Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible 'anarchy', why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy,' why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

There is no defence line, there is defence of area. This area is all of the home country!

A needy God could end up destroying the universe one day. God is the Absolute. This means that he does not change and that he does not need anything from His creations.

Egypt belongs to the Egyptians, the true African and black identity, even before Abraham began his prophecy.

Every country, in Africa, is crying for its own "independence".

Freedom is sweeter than peace. Meaning, every country that has a prime minister without a president as the head of the state; has got peace but not freedom. Their sovereignty is nothing but an illusion.

Liberty is the essential ingredient to live a happy life.

Not being under the mercy of someone else. That's what I call true change in life!

Our good reputation will be restored only through the removal of occupation within our nation.

Remember, independence is freedom and without independence, then you can't claim to be free at all.

Since God is immortal and not like our kings who come and go, the prince will never reign. That's what we mean when we say we believe in only one living God.

The eagle may rule the sky, but the lion will always rule the jungle.

The fact that you can impose democracy on other nations is already an undemocratic approach.

The independence of some African countries is nothing but a laughingstock.

The king's commands cannot be challenged without the rebel paying the price for it.

The outsiders are still the true rulers of those countries who didn't gain their full independence.