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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Engagement, States

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• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Literature, Deities

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.172, The Floating Press

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• Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, American Indian, Funny Bush

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

  Georges Bataille

  Crush, Men, Being Free

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Purpose, Tenacity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
  Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
  In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd,
  Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
  And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
  The speed that spins the future and the past:
  And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
  Awful eternity shall reign alone.

  Petrarch

  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

  Brother Lawrence

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.

  James MacDonald

  Hands, Worry, Needs

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• Contentment is accepting God's sovereign control over all of life's circumstances.

  Linda Dillow

  Accepting God, Contentment, Circumstances

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• This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes becoming what our courts have come to refer to as quasi-sovereign domestic dependent nations. Over the years the relationship has flourished, grown, and evolved into a vibrant partnership in which over 500 tribal governments stand shoulder to shoulder with the other governmental units that form our Republic.

  George H. W. Bush

  Independent, Years, Government

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• Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

  B. B. Warfield

  Grace, Favors, Ill

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• They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Organization, Here And There

  Address to Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin, en.kremlin.ru. March 18, 2014.

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• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
  Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,
  And for thy maintenance commits his body
  To painful labour both by sea and land,
  To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
  Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;
  And craves no other tribute at thy hands
  But love, fair looks and true obedience;
  Too little payment for so great a debt.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Husband, Home

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 147

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• In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Voice, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, America

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• For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Views, Law, Light

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Preface (20 May 1926), p. vii, 1926.

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• Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

  Horace

  Men, Wife, Credit

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• Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

  Charles James Fox

  People, Majesty

  "The Younger Pitt. The Consuming Struggle" by John Ehrman,London: Constable, (p. 116), 1996.

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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, United States, Prove It

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• Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Ambition, Proud, Deities

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Leigh Hunt (1846). “The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch”, p.145

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• The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Ideas, Judging

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32

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• We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.

  John C. Calhoun

  Unions, States, Equal

  To Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849.

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• The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

  Edward Gibbon

  Two, Government, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Every sovereign country has the right to control its borders, and should. The idea that anyone would sneak over our borders without proper documentation to me is absolutely abhorrent.

  Mark Helprin

  Country, Ideas, Abhorrent

  Source: americasfuture.org

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