Sovereignty Quotes - Page 4

• Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

  Paul Virilio

  Territory, Inherent, Territorial

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

  Pauline Marois

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• It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

  Niall Ferguson

  Country, People, Political

  "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is" by William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

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• The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Integrity, Destiny

  Source: time.com

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• Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.

  E.C. Riegel

  Miscarriage, Frustration, Power

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• At every turn you have to find a new kind of self-sovereignty over your environment. Every kid I see is at the mercy of Periscope, Twitter, or an Angry Bird of some description. People are shackled to their mediocrity by companies and businesses who want to consume your life with theirs.

  Daniel Gillies

  Kids, Self, People

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• Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright, shining lie.

  Pat Buchanan

  Horse, Lying, Loss

  "Where the right went wrong". Book by Pat Buchanan, 2001.

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• Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

  Richard N. Haass

  Giving Up, Government, Addresses

  "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.

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

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Loss, Lost Friendship, Warning

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• The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Doe, Spheres, Individual

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• Truth is never our enemy, ever. So we should never freak out about people who claim to have discovered truth. If it's true truth, God owns it and has already accounted for it, and while nothing that is true ever contradicts God's revealed word in the Bible, discovered truth sometimes contradicts the words of Christians. We shouldn't be afraid of this, because God knew it before anybody else and its discovery is dependent on his sovereignty anyway. The truth is that the truth is ours - all truth is our truth because we are of Christ and Christ is of the sovereign God.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Discovery, People

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• We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Parliament, Parliamentary

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• The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Rights, Government

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3250, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Military, Integrity, Sake

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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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• A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.

  Wendell Phillips

  War, Government, People

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• Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God's perfect control and management of the universe. He preserves and governs every element. He's continually involved with all created things, directing them to act in a way that fulfills his divine purpose. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

  Max Lucado

  People, Perfect, Anxiety

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it. You can't run the world, but you can entrust it to God. This is the message behind Paul's admonition to "rejoice in the Lord." Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord. Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty, as Paul did. Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.

  Max Lucado

  Running, Track, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

  Mary Astell

  States, Absolutes, Ifs

  Reflections upon Marriage, 3rd ed., preface (1706)

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• The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Independence, Unions, States

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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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• The world political system is till based on the concept of the national sovereign state. For the first time therefore, in three hundred years economy and sovereignty are becoming divorced from each other.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Political, Three

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.

  Jacques Chirac

  People, Principles, Sovereign

  Interview, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2003.

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