Sovereignty Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Government, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Evil, Lust

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• The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Sky, Voice

  "Southern Pacific Company v. Jensen 244 U.S. 205, 222". Dissenting opinion, May 21, 1917.

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• Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Soul, Rivals

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.82

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• Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouragement, Self, Two

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• This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Health, Stronger

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• The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

  Naftali Bennett

  Ideas, Office, Prime

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• We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

  Naftali Bennett

  Giving Up, Cities, Agreement

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• Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Fighting, Long

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• England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Wind, Sea

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• The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Determination, Real

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• The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

  Jill Briscoe

  Faith, Religious, Practice

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• Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

  Fidel Castro

  Achievement, Doe, Revolution

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• I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Lakes, Utah

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Action, Legitimate Power

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

  John Adams

  Political, Arbitrary, Fundamentals

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. November 13, 1815.

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• I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.

  John Piper

  Believe, People, Want

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• The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.

  John Piper

  Invincible, Sovereignty Of God, Boldness

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.64, SPCK

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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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• 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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• All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

  Tryon Edwards

  Agency, Providence, Wells

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.450, Ravenio Books

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• Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

  David Cameron

  States, Results, Institutions

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