Quotes About Sovereignty

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

I don't bow down to the federal government.