Their Sovereignty Quotes
- Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. — Lester R. Brown
- The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. — Jean Monnet
- We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary… — Joschka Fischer
- As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states… — Dick Thornburgh
- The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant. — Theodor Adorno
- It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. — James Monroe