Sovereign Quotes - Page 9

• America is a sovereign nation. And as President Trump has said all along, made a centerpiece of his campaign from day one, we have to stop the flow of people and drugs over our borders.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, People, Drug

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that's why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That's the problem with the American role.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Independent, Years

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Doe, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

  Denis Diderot

  War, People, Legislators

  Denis Diderot, John Hope Mason, Robert Wokler (1992). “Diderot: Political Writings”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Communication, Government, Law

  "The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"".

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• We will save our sovereign rights as a nation.

  Donald Trump

  Rights, Nations

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It has been the major task of his life for the last forty years. What Sharon wants to do is "shorten the lines," in military slang. He wants to give up some positions which are untenable, or which cost too much to keep, and to withdraw to where he wants Israel to be.

  Uri Avnery

  Giving Up, Military, Real

  Source: progressive.org

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• Obedience is our responsibility. The outcome is God's responsibility. As we learn to trust him with our future, trust him with those we love, trust him as our provider, and trust his sovereign plan, that gives us the foundation to step out in faith. We can trust that he'll always be faithful.

  Craig Groeschel

  Responsibility, Giving, Faithful

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

  John W. Snow

  Success, Congratulations, Views

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• My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so — from both the ethical and political points of view — had to be faced in all its gravity.

  Isser Harel

  Country, Mean, Views

  isser harel (1975). “the house on garibaldi street”

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• If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Angel, Reflection, Men

  "Religion Without God". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 86, 1928.

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• Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

  Francois Rabelais

  Queens, Cheer, Used

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Political, Three

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.575, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  Taliesin

  World, Royal, Praise

  Taliesin, “The Spoils Of Annwfn”

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• In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.

  Judith Butler

  Military, Order, Land

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

  Theresa May

  Country, America, World

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Responsibility, Borders

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments, but they have ceded a part of their sovereignty to the Union level, and their sovereignty is now penetrated by EU law.

  Mary Robinson

  Thinking, Government, Law

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

  C. Wright Mills

  Political, Entrepreneur, Magic

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.242, Oxford University Press

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• The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Country, Military, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would discredit and derail a constructive effort to develop a credible meta-law that governs the behaviour of leaders of sovereign states.

  Richard A. Falk

  Law, Leader, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It should be appreciated that this whole effort to hold leaders of states criminally responsible is a rather radical challenge to territorial sovereignty and a repudiation of the whole related ethos of 'sovereign immunity'.

  Richard A. Falk

  Ethos, Leader, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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