Quotes About Sovereignty

The truth of God's sovereignty . . . removes every ground for human boasting and instills the spirit of humility in its stead. It declares that salvation is of the Lord-of the Lord in its origination, in its operation, and in its consummation. . . . And all this is most humbling to the heart of man, who wants to contribute something to the price of his redemption and do that which will afford ground for boasting and self-satisfaction.'2

Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.

There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Every man wishes to be king. Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.

They have no tsar in America—no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She

He is now king of Scotland in all but legitimacy!

The law always limits every power it gives.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

No one man should have all that power.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.