Sovereign Quotes · Page 15

If [Donald Trump] doesn't make sure that all the foreign government payments - and this includes banks and other corporations owned by…

— Reince Priebus

In any trial, in any bitter situation, you are not alone, you are not helpless, you are not a victim. You have…

— Kay Arthur

We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.

— John C. Calhoun

I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

— Alija Izetbegovic

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are…

— Theresa May

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

— Ambrose Bierce

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of…

— Anonymous

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

— David Jeremiah

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

— Albert Einstein

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

— R. C. Sproul

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

— Charles Spurgeon

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

— Edward Gibbon

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

— Matt Chandler

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign…

— Mencius

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

— Marine Le Pen

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to…

— George Meyer

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

— Bernard Bailyn

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

— Duncan Campbell Scott

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

— John Calvin

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will…

— Sri Aurobindo

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict…

— Henry A. Wise

What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing,…

— William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in…

— Edmund Burke

The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation;…

— Francois Fenelon

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that…

— John Taylor Gatto

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither…

— Michel Foucault

I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to…

— Ron Paul

Whether you can see it or not - and often we cannot - everything is being used of God for your good…

— James Montgomery Boice

For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical…

— Roger E. Olson

Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,…

— Grover Cleveland

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to…

— Anonymous

The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this…

— John Cassian

The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to…

— David Cannadine

“But the factor is real: a sovereign is a sovereign, and no government can be entirely without paternal graces. No one in…

— Mencius Moldbug

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of…

— William Whipple

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

— Thomas Jefferson