Sovereignty Quotes
291 quotes by 230 authors
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— Saint Augustine
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
— Walter Bagehot
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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
— Bob Barr
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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
— Thomas Browne
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than…
— David Cameron
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
— B R Ambedkar
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Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable…
— John Abizaid
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To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.
— Josiah Warren
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers…
— Jerry Bridges
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
— Ben Jonson
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds…
— John F. Kennedy
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There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its…
— Louis Kronenberger
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To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
— Paul Bremer
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The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and…
— Maurice Strong
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Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.
— George W. Bush
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In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In…
— Amory Lovins
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