Sovereignty Quotes · Page 8

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits…

— Richard Perle

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

— Thomas Frank

“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”

— Anonymous

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

— George Soros

Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're…

— Mary Robinson

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity,…

— William Shakespeare

We do not want war, but we are ready to defend our citizens, our soldiers, and our sovereignty.

— Yoav Gallant

I would never agree to an exclusive Muslim sovereignty over areas that are religiously important to Jews and Christians.

— Ehud Olmert

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between…

— Anonymous

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link,…

— Aristide Briand

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

“Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the equal and unalienable possession of individual human beings. The…

— Harry V. Jaffa

“Our hope is a word and world of proud, independent nations that embrace their duties, seek friendship, respect others, and make common…

— Donald Trump

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest…

— Roger B. Taney

A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for…

— Walter Cronkite

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,…

— James Madison

“Our country was very close to acquiring full sovereignty—that is, a nuclear weapon. In the new world order, only nations that have…

— Anonymous

Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I…

— Nhat Hanh

In the last thirty years we have gained enormous amount of freedom (everywhere, except perhaps in places like Burma or North Korea),…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to…

— Josiah Warren

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as…

— Aristotle

The idea of self-determination was gradually given credibility by international law, and it lent strong emancipatory support to movements of liberation struggling…

— Richard A. Falk

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite…

— Loraine Boettner

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

— Daniel Webster

Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.

— Sam Gyimah

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

— L. Neil Smith

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

— James Monroe

The e-mails [from WikiLeaks] show that behind closed doors speaking to these international bankers, Hillary Clinton's pledged to destroy the sovereignty of…

— Donald Trump

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

— Michel de Montaigne

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion.…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find…

— Sidney Hook

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and…

— Arthur Henderson

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in…

— Thomas Jefferson

No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.

— Angela Rayner

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

— Jerry Bridges

Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of…

— Jacques Chirac

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

— David Rockefeller