Sovereignty Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Sovereignty Quotes from famous authors such as George Nethercutt, Thomas Mann, Stephen Miller, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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If succeeding generations of Americans don’t understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts – or others like them – will continue.
George Nethercutt
2
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Thomas Mann
3
Donald Trump is fighting for working people, and he’s fighting to restore the borders around this country that are the essential ingredient for national sovereignty and national success in a way that nobody has who has held that office not only in my lifetime but, frankly, in the history of this country.
Stephen Miller
4
Inserting the FCC into our states’ economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and violates state sovereignty in a manner that warrants deeper examination.
Marsha Blackburn
5
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
Rand Paul
6
Europe started very well in the 1950s with a trading bloc but it became a political project, and we transferred sovereignty to them. If you don’t know what you are – and this is the intention of the E.U. elites – you don’t know what you’re not either. We should regain our sovereignty again.
Geert Wilders
7
Given the right to – given the opportunity to vote, I voted for Brexit because I’ve never approved really of the European Union, I never approved of it because of its attempts to confiscate national sovereignty in all the issues that matter.
Roger Scruton
8
Our security and sovereignty stand together.
Michael Gove
9
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
10
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
11
Without hesitation, I’m voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.
Bernard Arnault
12
The Germans argue – and I can fully understand them – that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.
Charles Dallara
13
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?
Thomas Frank
14
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
Raul Castro
15
Any country must establish control over its borders. That is essential to sovereignty and the security of our citizens. But America, at our best, has balanced that political, legal, and social objective with an appreciation for the benefits of immigration and a sense of respect for the dignity of all human beings.
Ben Rhodes
16
Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.
Marquis de Lafayette
17
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
Camille Paglia
18
Sovereignty is not just at the national level; that’s the mistake of Brexit that other people make.
Emmanuel Macron
19
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation’s first Americans. That’s included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.
Ken Salazar
20
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
Bob Barr
21
If populism means reducing the gap between the people and the elite, giving sovereignty – the fullness of sovereignty – back to the people, and making the job of representation really adhere to the protection of the interests represented, we embrace the title of populists.
Giuseppe Conte
22
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
23
Sovereignty of Afghanistan must be accepted categorically by Pakistan so that we can move forward.
Ashraf Ghani
24
When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
25
There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.
Tara Westover
26
Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
Pat Buchanan
27
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
28
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
29
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
30
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
Alexis Tsipras
31
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
32
We must first and foremost defend Hungary’s independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban
33
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
Dick Thornburgh
34
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
Saint Bernard
35
We will resolutely and persistently maintain independence while fighting for the protection of our sovereignty, but we must maintain a peaceful environment for development.
Nguyen Phu Trong
36
For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You’d feel like you’ve given up your sovereignty, wouldn’t you?
Kevin Hassett
37
We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
Robert Webb
38
To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.
Charles Spurgeon
39
A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.
Marco Rubio
40
Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.
Dan Crenshaw
41
I have four priorities. Give back to the French their sovereignty over the French territory, their sovereignty over the currency, their sovereignty over the economy and the law.
Marine Le Pen
42
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.
Dick Thornburgh
43
The biggest risk to Quebec isn’t sovereignty. It is staying in Canada.
Pauline Marois
44
I’m not against the government. I’m against this ever-expanding government that doesn’t know its limits. And that’s how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.
Alan Wilson
45
No organization, let alone one that is in the business of war and defending Singapore’s sovereignty, can realistically promise zero fatalities or training incidents even as the public must insist on the strictest training safety parameters for the SAF, and MINDEF strives for the same.
Pritam Singh
46
I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that’s why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting.
Pauline Marois
47
The ‘Protect America First Act’ is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
48
I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Alija Izetbegovic
49
Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.
Sun Yat-sen
50
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
T. D. Jakes
51
No deal wouldn’t return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.
Angela Rayner
52
When it comes to Singapore’s sovereignty, there can be no doubt where the WP has stood and will continue to stand. We stand with Singapore.
Pritam Singh
53
We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
Menachem Begin
54
YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a ‘skip ad’ button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that’s what I call consumer sovereignty!
Mark Skousen
55
The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.
Albert Pike
56
Alzheimer’s disease is never an ‘accident’ in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God’s sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer’s, this means God’s unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.
Joni Eareckson Tada
57
Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can’t be defined or protected.
Geert Wilders
58
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
Roger B. Taney
59
When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we’ll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
60
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop Motley
61
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
62
The truth is that every trade deal imposes some restriction on sovereignty.
Dominic Grieve
63
Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in their own land as Israeli children in their land. A two-state solution will finally bring Israelis the security and normalcy to which they are entitled, and Palestinians the sovereignty and dignity they deserve.
Denis McDonough
64
Money is one of the elements of sovereignty.
Marine Le Pen
65
I wish to reiterate solemnly China’s continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Li Keqiang
66
This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.
Steve Bannon
67
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
68
Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.
Matteo Salvini
69
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
Ulrich Beck
70
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Nikita Khrushchev
71
For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we’d like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.
Tsai Ing-wen
72
A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
Michael Kinsley
73
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Terry Eagleton
74
We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
75
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
Fidel Castro
76
For me, the most ironic aspect of the Brexit debate has been right-wing Brexiteers speaking loftily about parliamentary sovereignty, when they have never backed MPs having a fuller involvement in how our country is run.
Ed Davey
77
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
78
The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
Naftali Bennett
79
I try to put myself in others’ shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don’t think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.
Benigno Aquino III
80
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of ‘British’ values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Pankaj Mishra
81
Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
Charles Simonyi
82
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa
83
I care about national sovereignty of America.
Mike Cernovich
84
The idea of dual sovereignty rests on the premise that the power of the states to prosecute crimes existed before the creation of the federal government, and is reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Asha Rangappa
85
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
86
The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.
Peter Maurer
87
Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.
Sam Gyimah
88
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
William Whipple
89
For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.
Haider al-Abadi
90
Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
91
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
92
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 Dalberg-Acton
93
All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.
Peter Hollingworth
94
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
95
I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
Paul Bremer
96
The European nations’ loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly
97
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.
George Packer
98
In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.
Ed Davey
99
There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual: the free-market, or capitalist, system.
William E. Simon