Quotes About Sovereignty

The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad.

Western people ask me whether it is a paradox that I am King but support democracy. I have to tell them that in Thailand, the King is the guarantor of democracy.

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

When we were told Brexit meant taking back powers for Parliament, no one told my constituents this meant the French parliament and the German parliament, not our own.

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

There is nothing more precious than our country.

Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.

We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

The first is the law, the last prerogative.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.