Sovereignty Quotes - Page 16

• God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

  Jerry Bridges

  Responsibility, Doe, Praying

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.111, NavPress

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• Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.

  Anjem Choudary

  Believe, Supremacy, Command

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We're being overrun by people who live in poor and corrupt countries who come to the USA to get work. But we got to regain our sovereignty, we're going to control our border, and there will be border security tied to the pathway to citizenship. There will be an earned pathway to citizenship. It will be available to everybody who works hard, pays a fine, passes a background check.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Hard Work, Usa

  "Meet The Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.

  Philip Schaff

  Christian, Responsibility, Men

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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• I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.

  Robert Mugabe

  Zimbabwe, Rights, People

  "'Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks" by Peta Thornycroft, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2003.

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• Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

  Edward Gibbon

  Exercise, Government, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.32

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• Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

  Bill Vaughan

  Independent, Iraq, May

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• While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Games, Two

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.394, NYU Press

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• The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Believe, Purple

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
  [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

  Plautus

  Taken, Wife, Dowry

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• 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

  Earth, Requirements, Granted

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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