Sovereignty Quotes · Page 9

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

— Plautus

If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this…

— Joshua Wong

For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS…

— Paul Virilio

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave…

— John Perry Barlow

The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on…

— Bill McCollum

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

— Jill Briscoe

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

— George Soros

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation.…

— Theodor Herzl

If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has…

— Dwight L. Moody

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or…

— Vladimir Putin

…the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers.…

— Patricio Aylwin

Together, America and the United Kingdom are a beacon for prosperity and the rule of law. That is why the United States…

— Donald Trump

We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have…

— Barack Obama

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have…

— Jean Monnet

To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to…

— Alexander Hamilton

The big issue is whether Ukraine is successful as a country. Democracy. Market economy. Prosperity. Security. And so on. And whether we…

— Kurt Volker

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres,…

— Abraham Kuyper

Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree…

— Noam Chomsky

To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano…

— Russell Sherman

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:…

— George Packer

The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who…

— Craig S. Keener

I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white…

— Sherman Alexie

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising…

— James Monroe

“...it is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

— Noam Chomsky

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

— George Monbiot

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

— Marine Le Pen

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

— R. C. Sproul

Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

— Judith Butler

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're…

— Edward Snowden

“Abram and Antonia Chayes even redefined sovereignty itself to mean not the right to be left alone but the right to participate…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the…

— Joschka Fischer

When it comes to Singapore's sovereignty, there can be no doubt where the WP has stood and will continue to stand. We…

— Pritam Singh

I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.

— Marine Le Pen

Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a…

— Vladimir Putin

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

— Gijs de Vries

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty…

— Woodrow Wilson

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no…

— John Boyd Orr

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook