Quotes About Sovereignty

Cascadia was able to exist for so long as a single entity because no nation cared enough to take control of this distant corner of North America. Even though four countries — Russia, Spain, Britain and the United States — explored the Pacific Northwest's coastline, none claimed exclusive sovereignty over the land mass lying behind it.

We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.

Theocracy is not, however, to be confused with "theocracy" or any other form of government contained within scare quotes, to which I am unalterably opposed.

Christ is begotten from the dead and so all the nations of men belong to him.

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Everything else in all political economy is a footnote to that profound and glorious reality. And we don't need to pray in order to make that true. It was true before any of us were born. But we should pray that God gives us the vision to see and believe that. Why should we believe that? Well, we are called believers, after all.

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people.

The specific line here is that you must never question Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, the land claimed in 1975 when 350,000 Moroccans marched into the then-Spanish territory, kicking off a war that lasted sixteen years and only strengthened the Moroccan government's resolve.

Not surprisingly Wells places the City of London—the international center of banking culture—and its financial credit as responsible for knitting together world economic life over the previous hundred years. With these innovations in communications and finance, but also with the frustrations and wars inherent (so he says) in the existence of independent national states and sovereignties, came about the gradual dawning of the idea of the World-State.

After World War II, the globalist agenda was advanced by the creation of the United Nations. An earlier attempt to create a transnational organization, the League of Nations, failed because the U.S. Senate thought that ratification would end American sovereignty.

Che uno deve a volte fingere di aver rabbia, ma rabbia proprio non si deve mai tollerare di averla. Perché, quando si nutre rabbia di qualcuno, è la stessa cosa che autorizzare quella medesima persona a venire a governare, durante tutto quel tempo, la nostra mente e il nostro sentire; e questo era mancanza di sovranità, e abbondante stupidaggine, e di fatto lo è.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

what are the effects of Victorian India providing the quintessential form of imperial sovereignty when such stark evidence should lead to other sites and in other directions? What imperial history is being rehearsed with this model in mind when more gradated forms of sovereignty have been equally effective and pervasive (think of Morocco, Palestine, Puerto Rico, and Vieques) and make up not the exception to imperial governance but such a widespread norm?

What has long made the U.S. military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean a "secret history," or the nuclear test sites that have ravaged large swaths of reservation land in the United States a "Native American problem," or consigned the Mariana Islands as outside the field of (post)colonial work? Why have these not been considered nodal points of an imperial history rather than grist for the case that the U.S. remains an imperial exception?

Take a minute, take a breath, and remember—God's still on His throne. He's always in control, even when we want to be. And sometimes his blessings of provision bring more work, more responsibility and more joy than we can imagine.

The bottom line is that 'Russia can either be an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both.'19 If Ukraine does not stay independent, in other words, Russia will not remain a democracy, so Ukrainian independence is as much for Russia's good as Ukraine's. Russians, of course, have some difficulty taking this concept on board.

The (Polish-bom) American Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski writes that 'without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Yet, O LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. ISAIAH 64:8

Abram and Antonia Chayes even redefined sovereignty itself to mean not the right to be left alone but the right to participate in international organizations and networks.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.