Quotes About Sovereignty

We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

I would rather be single than be someone's girlfriend because that's not my identity.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.

I've said all along that God is in control.

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

Declaration of Independence: that all of our rights and liberties come to us from our Creator.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La verdadera libertad consiste en el dominio absoluto de sí mismo (Galileo Galilei)

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

There is nothing morally objectionable in stating that a country has the inalienable right to decide on the exact number of immigrants and the exact type of immigrants that it wishes to let into its borders. As part of that calculus, it is perfectly rational to exhibit preferential treatment to immigrants who share one's cultural values.

Very few MPs disagree with the need for a withdrawal bill to enable us to disentangle our 50-year relationship with the legal structures of the European Union and to enable us to function effectively outside of it.

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

A king without power is an absurdity.

A country without borders is not a country.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.