Quotes About Sovereignty

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.

If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

The future belongs to God.

But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.

The essential principle of Mormonism is not polygamy at all, but the ambition of an ecclesiastical hierarchy to wield sovereignty; to rule the souls and lives of its subjects with absolute authority, unrestrained by any civil power.

Like being free to think for yourself.

I believe after a series of years that no government that has the power to collect taxes and declare war, can be restrained but by a display of sufficient power to break it up," Pickens said.

Lincoln asked. "Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!…I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us….If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!…I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us….If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." The

Resolved Therefore that the General Assembly of this colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as AMERICAN FREEDOM.50 Men

But where, say some, is the king of America?" Paine wrote. "I'll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great Britain….For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.

For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.

My apartment rightfully belongs to the people of Lithuania!

The sum of those no ones was the King of the Universe.

todas as terras que um súdito descobre, pertencem, de direito, à coroa.

God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

None of us are sovereign over others, although to such ill-omened thoughts we cling.

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

Nothing in all the vast universe can come to pass otherwise than God has eternally purposed. Here is a foundation of faith. Here is a resting place for the intellect. Here is an anchor for the soul, both sure and steadfast. It is not blind fate, unbridled evil, man or Devil, but the Lord Almighty who is ruling the world, ruling it according to His own good pleasure and for His own eternal glory.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

Man in his usual perversity turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would feign direct the Almighty as to what He ought to do, giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the compassion that those who pray (?) have, all would quickly be right