Quotes About Sovereignty

all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government. . .

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

If there be good in that I wrought Thy Hand compelled it, Master, Thine – Where I have failed to meet Thy Thought I know, through Thee, the blame was mine.... The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray – Thou knowest who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest who hast made the Clay.

India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

No dominion is everlasting.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. - Notebook, 1894

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

Feminism's ultimate success is that we don't need it anymore.

Nevertheless, many times during that evening she despaired of destiny, and of herself. She didn't invoke God, as we know, but she had faith in the genius of evil, that vast sovereignty that reigns over all the details of human life, a power so great that, as in the Arabian fable, it needs no more than a single pomegranate seed from which to reconstruct a ruined world. Once she'd readied herself to receive Felton

But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws proclaim it; it spreads with freedom and attains unimpeded its ultimate consequences.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

The American revolution broke out, and the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, which had been nurtured in the townships and municipalities, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law of laws.

The sovereignty of the people and the liberty of the press may therefore be looked upon as correlative institutions; just as the censorship of the press and universal suffrage are two things which are irreconcilably opposed, and which cannot long be retained among the institutions of the same people.

the God of woman is autonomy

Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and "the King's person," representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plural form as "we.

BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.