Best Sovereignty Quotes
291 Sovereignty quotes by 226 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
— Jean Monnet
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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
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The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
— George Soros
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.
— Michael Hyatt
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
— Woodrow Wilson
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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
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