Quotes About Sovereignty

to repudiate the election of God is to repudiate the God of election.

Soiés resolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libres.

To look at Him was to go blind. To stand before Him was to die.

There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination." New York Times, 1975

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

all authority of governments on earth originates from the Sovereignty of God alone.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

For Adams, as for most of his fellow statesmen, the question was not whether—but when—Cuba would become part of the United States. An American Cuba was inevitable, a consequence of the most elemental law of nature: gravity.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

German are Rulers, not to be Rule.

Fatherland or colony.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.