Sovereign Quotes - Page 8

• Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Independent, Iran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Australia, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

  Voltaire

  Law, Tyrants, Caprice

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2014, e-artnow

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

  John Piper

  Your Side, Christian Inspirational, Together

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• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

  Sean Penn

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Soldier

  Open Letter to the President George W. Bush, www.snopes.com. November 3, 2002.

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• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Government, People, Use

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• [If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

  Jane Jacobs

  Government, Missing, Would Be

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Science, World Government

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• The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughter, Spring, Doors

  "Les misérables".

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• There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global political actor sensitive to geopolitical realities. The underlying idea was to provide major states, defined in 1945 by reference to the winners in the Second World War (now an anachronism), with assurance that they could take part in the UN without jeopardising their national interests. In this regard, the UN has succeeded, as none of the big countries has withdrawn, and the Organisation has managed to achieve virtually universal membership of all sovereign states.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Law, Benefits

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

  Tariq Ali

  Decision, Political, Ease

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Kings, President, Advent

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• I worked with the Nato Military Committee. The Head of the Luxembourg Armed Forces had equal standing with me, and I had to respect that. He was the leader of the armed forces of a sovereign country. I had to make sure he never thought that I was looking down on them, merely because they had less power than we did. With that kind of approach you can develop bonds of trust. I tried to do the same thing with my colleagues when I was Secretary of State.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Military, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

  Thornton Wilder

  Choices, Mind, May

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, Mind, Body

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

  Roger Williams

  People, Authority, Consent

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

  Xavier Becerra

  Children, Home, School

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• He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Winning

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Free Will, Servant, Ifs

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.161, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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