Quotes About Sovereignty

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of jihad.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

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.

People, your Government has returned to you!

We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.