Quotes About Sovereignty

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

The less government we have the better.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.