Quotes About Sovereignty

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God!

Cats talk to whomever they please.

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.

But I think I cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. -- Barbara Kingsolver writes, 'It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace'.

When George Washington directed federal troops to exterminate the Onondaga during the Revolutionary War, a nation that had numbered in the tens of thousands was reduced to a few hundred people in a matter of one year.

But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone and walked each day to see them. Barbara Kingsolver writes, "It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace".

entered the country illegally

For a while, O King, the gods had sought to solve the riddles of Time, for a while They made him Their slave, and Time smiled and obeyed his masters, for a while, O King, for a while. He that hath spared nothing hath not spared the gods, nor yet shall he spare thee.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States.

As creatures, you and I are responsible to obey the Creator.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.

What would this country be without this great land of ours.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty