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• Mrs. Teasdale congratulates him on his coronation and sovereignty: "The eyes of the world are upon you. Notables from every country are gathered here in your honor. This is a gala day for you." Firefly replies: "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more."

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Eye, Firefly

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• Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

  Anthony Eden

  Time, Discovery, Succeed

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• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Requirements, Firsts

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.

  Bill Bradley

  Giving Up, War, Command And Control

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• In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.

  Stephen Charnock

  Christian, Godly, Order

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• Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency, one language and a single unified representative national administration. Never again in England would sovereignty descend to the merely regional level. Never again would the idea of England and the unity of England ever be challenged.

  David Starkey

  Country, Kings, Dark

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• Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

  Abraham Kuyper

  School, Exercise, Men

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and Bitter Providence, John Piper does an outstanding job of bibli- cally defending key truths that the church often ignores. He gives us an example of how to take a bold and educated stand on issues of race, purity, and God's sovereignty.

  Francis Chan

  Sweet, Jobs, Keys

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• Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.

  Karin Slaughter

  Children, Book, Giving

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• A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God’s sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples.

  David Platt

  Christian, Believe, Views

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• A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Views, Vision, Helping

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.288, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

  J. I. Packer

  Humble, Divine Wisdom, Mind

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• Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

  Tertullian

  Fall, Men, Race

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.136, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

  William Shakespeare

  Want, Dignity, Complexion

  William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.214, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Justice, Democracy, Republic

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• Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites

  Yasser Arafat

  Rejection, East, Jerusalem

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• Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Absurd, Succession

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 246), 1848.

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• Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Iraq, Goal

  Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

  John Bingham

  Law, Land, Parent

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• In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were to remain sovereign to convince them to concede sovereignty … The Commission in Brussels, for example, should act as if it were a technical instrument, in order to be able to be treated as a government. And so on by disguise and subterfuge.

  Giuliano Amato

  Government, Order, Europe

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• Sovereignty was not an issue in this campaign. The sovereignty numbers that were there before the campaign are still there. Sovereignty is as alive as it was. But there is work to do to convince Quebecers.

  Pauline Marois

  Numbers, Issues, Campaigns

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• The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

  Roger Brooke Taney

  War, Thinking, Rights

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• The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

  Julian Huxley

  Government, Years, Organization

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• Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Should

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• The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

  Sight, Hands, Choices

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