Sovereignty Quotes: Expressions of Power and Independence

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"There can be no compromises on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"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, Journalist

"Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"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, Politician

"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

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

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty"

James Monroe, President

"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition"

John Acton, Historian

"Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law"

Gary North, Writer

"We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government"

Dennis Cardoza, Politician

"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty"

Danny Glover, Actor

"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"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, Politician

"Vietnam is a peaceful and friendly country that respects the sovereignty of other nations"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

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

William Whipple, Politician

"As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

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