Sovereign Quotes

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.