Quotes About Sovereignty

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

The Hmong never had any interest in ruling over the Chinese or anyone else; they wanted merely to be left alone, which, as their later history was also to illustrate, may be the most difficult request any minority can make of a majority culture.

We seek power so as not to fall under anyone else's power

I am your queen," the woman answered.

But truly, who has greater power than the god of death?

Azért vágyunk a hatalomra, hogy ne kelljen mások hatalma alatt sínylÅ'dnünk.

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy

It's Good to Be King In fact, in a stable world, it's great to be king. Lots of perks. Not a lot of hassles. Kings have always worked to maintain stability because that's the best way to stay king.

subjugation of India under British rule.

She'd never imagined that her vagina had the power to destabilize a whole country.

In America republicanism had to find a place for democracy, eventually even endow it with sovereignty—if only in the abstract—while contriving obstacles to popular power that simultaneously advantaged the Few (e.g., a property qualification for voting) and defined governing in ways that corresponded to the abilities of a new class of merchants, bankers, lawyers, and manufacturers.

Thus, early on, while the people were declared "sovereign," they were precluded from governing.

Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.

Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.

Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn oxymorons of all time?

In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.