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• On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.

  Jim Sillars

  Lying, Hands, People

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• The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

  Christopher Hyatt

  Government, Ideas, Majority

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• Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
  Know that He cares for those who turn to Him; relieves difficulties for them; is there for them in every circumstance, condition and change; and He shelters them in His Mercy, Grace, Pardon and Forgiveness.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Grace, Care, Shelter

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• It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.

  Michelle Malkin

  Shadow, Ordinary, Sanctuary

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• Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Independent, Flags

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• From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Legislation, All Time

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.42, Penguin

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• There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

  Bobby Sands

  Destiny, People, Leaving

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

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• Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe: And if a member of Civil Society, do it with a saving of his allegiance to the Universal Sovereign. We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

  James Madison

  Men, Saving, Matter

  James Madison, Virginia. General assembly, 1785 (1828). “A memorial and remonstrance, on the religious rights of man; written in 1784-5, at the request of the religious society of Baptists in Virginia. ...”, p.4

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• Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

  Thucydides

  Long, Desire, Use

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Grace, And Love, Add

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council can sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state is inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Gay, Keys

  "G20: Russia says it will consider Syria military action but needs more proof". "AM", www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2013.

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• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent, Men, America

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• No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Heaven, Grace

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith and the charity of Your tender heart the souls of those who work for the good of the people, for Your poor. Impart to them Your own spirit, a spirit of discipline, order and gentleness, preserving the flame of enthusiasm ever alight in their hearts... May that day come very soon, when we shall see You restored to the center of civic life, borne on the shoulders of Your joyful people.

  Pope John XXIII

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

  James Madison

  Real, Government, Public Opinion

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.460

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• Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.

  Dan Block

  Worship, Revelations, Submission

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• Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Prayer, Mean, Keys

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria

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• Ronald Reagan was an actor. Not at all a factor, Just an employee of the country's real masters. Just like the Bushes, Clinton and Obama, Just another talkin' head tellin' lies on teleprompters. If you don't believe the theory, then argue with this logic: Why did Reagan and Obama both go after Gaddafi? We invaded sovereign soil, goin' after oil Takin' countries as a hobby paid for by the oil lobby, Same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ahmadinejad sayin' they comin' for Iran.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Real, Lying

  "Killer Mike: R.A.P. Music" by Evan Rytlewski, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Want, Ifs

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• The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.378, Penguin

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• The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

  Sun Tzu

  Agents, Treated, Five

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