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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Government, Justice, Mind

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• A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, World Government, Yield

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• Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Simple, People, Occupation

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• No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Space, Race, Quests

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.

  Golda Meir

  Cities, Half, Jerusalem

  Time Magazine, February 19, 1973.

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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• There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.

  Alan Keyes

  Thinking, Differences, Government

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Arlington, Virginia, www.keyesarchives.com. January 24, 2004.

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• Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, People

  "Bolivian president flies home to hero’s welcome", www.taipeitimes.com. July 5, 2013.

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• We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

  Robert Mugabe

  Blood, Land, Zimbabwe

  Robert Mugabe's speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, September 2, 2002.

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• The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.

  Bill McCollum

  Night, House, Reform

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• Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Moving, Order

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.98, Moody Publishers

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• Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Broken Heart, Country, Patches

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13

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• ....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

  Patricio Aylwin

  Decide Upon, Might, Today

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• Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

  L. Neil Smith

  Groups, Sometimes, Individual

  "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. May 02, 2010.

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• The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

  Bernard Bailyn

  War, Ideas, Political

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.

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• Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Character, Men, Organization

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• There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

  Jean Monnet

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.

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• I learned very early that people need to have a good grasp of God's goodness and God's sovereignty.

  Matt Chandler

  People, Needs, Goodness

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.

  Loraine Boettner

  Love, Faith, God

  Loraine Boettner (2017). “The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]”, p.44, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• As leaders, it all comes down to trust. Do you trust the sovereignty of God?

  Christine Caine

  Leader, Sovereignty Of God

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• It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Men, Knows

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• Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Numbers, Today

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• If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Believe, Evil, Achievement

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• I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

  William Whipple

  States, Importance, Wells

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• The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.

  David

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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