Best Sovereignty Quotes

291 Sovereignty quotes by 226 unique authors

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as… — Dick Thornburgh
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new… — Immanuel Wallerstein
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented;… — Joseph Story
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to… — James Madison
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to… — James Madison
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of… — Alexander Hamilton
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a… — Strobe Talbott
The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within… — Ron Paul
Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish… — Yasser Arafat
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson,… — Mercy Otis Warren
There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their… — Jean Monnet
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions. — George Soros
I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the… — Robert Mugabe
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion… — Christopher Columbus
The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to… — Philip Robinson
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves… — Noah Feldman
What does it mean to feel "in control" of your life? What I mean by control is the ability to make a choice. Personal sovereignty… — Polly Young-Eisendrath
I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say. — Michael Hyatt
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. — Woodrow Wilson
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe

Who Wrote These Sovereignty Quotes

226 authors contributed a total of 291 Sovereignty Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Sovereignty Quotes

More Ways to Read Sovereignty Quotes

Who Wrote These Sovereignty Quotes