Quotes About Sovereignty

South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.

La Russie vole, franchissant tout, dépassant tout — tout ce qui existe sur la terre — et les nations ne peuvent que s'écarter pour lui livrer passage.

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

You must never forget that dealing with a monarch is not like dealing with an ordinary man," Ibn Sina said. "A king is not like you or me. He drops a hand carelessly and someone like us is put to death. Or he wiggles a finger and someone is allowed to live. That is absolute power, and no man born of woman is able to resist it. It drives even the best of monarchs slightly mad.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

Aggiungo che a pensarci bene quest'Italia non è un'Italia ideale. È un'Italia che nonostante tutto esiste. Zittita, ridicolizzata, sbeffeggiata, diffamata, insultata, ma esiste. Quindi guai a chi me la tocca. Guai a chi me la invade. Guai a chi me la ruba.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Christ reigns in order to save." (Hom. in Luc. 30)

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That

It is heaven that rules.

Time and history have meaning. Under the twin truths of God's sovereignty and human significance, time and history are going somewhere, and each us is not only unique and significant in ourselves, but we have a unique and significant part to play in our own lives, in our own generation, and therefore in the overall sweep of history.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

He can crumple me up or exalt me, He can do anything He chooses.

We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples.

The things that happen do not happen by chance—they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes.

Dark and appalling are the clouds of war and wickedness and we know not where to turn, but, Lord God, Thou reignest.

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.