Quotes About Sovereignty

The great object is that every man be armed.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

We want to be with ourselves in a land of our own under the guidance of God.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Italy is only a geographical expression.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.