Quotes About Sovereignty

I can never consent to being dictated to.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

Here, then, was the crux. The king and his men believed that British wealth and status derived from the colonies. The erosion of authority in America, followed by a loss of sovereignty, would encourage rebellions in Canada, Ireland, the Caribbean, India. Dominoes would topple. "Destruction must follow disunion," the colonial secretary, Lord Dartmouth, warned.

Our country needs Federalism so that there will be devolution of power, and no other tribes will live at the expense of other.

I neither could nor would rule my King. But there's a little. . . little, area... where I must rule myself.

the nationality policy

Preferiría ser mendiga y soltera, que reina y casada. REINA ISABEL I, 1533-1603

We must not be the world's policeman, and we must be very cautious about deploying our military forces to resolve others' internal problems. But we must also use every nonmilitary instrument of power we possess to promote freedom and encourage reform, with friends as well as rivals, because these objectives serve our national interest.

Big guns are good but the Almighty is better, and He is on our side, no matter what the Kaiser says about it.

La libertad os hará libres

That in itself didn't bother her, though. If there was one thing she didn't need to do, it was to talk to a man.

God is America's king.

Instruments of God. We are the hammer, but our Father is the carpenter. Do not thank the hammer for a carpentry job well done. Snelling, Lauraine. An Untamed Heart (Red River of the North)