Sovereign Quotes - Page 17

• So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

  Michael Howard

  Peace, War, Government

  Michael Howard (1962). “The Causes of Wars and Other Essays”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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• Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grace, Soul, Spirit

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• Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Anarchy, Absence, Masters

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.134, AK Press

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• For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

  Aristotle

  Character, May, Moral

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Pleasure, Mould

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)”, p.377

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• Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Philosopher

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Reason, Conscience

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 242), 1901.

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• Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.

  Jean Monnet

  Past, Community, Progress

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• Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, Land, Needs

  "Iron Wall". Book by Lenni Brenner, 1984.

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• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Men, Giving

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• A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Citizens, Demand, States

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.174, Hackett Publishing

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• A sovereign, united and strong Iraq is beneficial for everyone.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Strong, Iraq, United

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don’t put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Adrian Rogers

  Jesus, Believe, Miracle

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• The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

  Mother Teresa

  Pro Life, Abortion, Parent

  "Speeches that Changed the World". Book edited by Owen Collins, Westminster John Knox Press, p. 431, 1999.

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Disappointment, Reading, Study

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• All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Wise, Government, Public Opinion

  Trial of John Vint and others, 27 How. St. Tr. 640, 1799.

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• Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.

  David Cannadine

  Daughter, Kings, Son

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• [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Aversion, Honorable

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.886, Modern Library

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• What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sadness, Remedy, Activity

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

  George Noory

  Class, Government, Giving

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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