Top 130 Sovereign Quotes

To be dubbed by my sovereign is an absolutely wonderful honour for me and my family.

India, being a sovereign state, has the right to decide what kind of nuclear deterrent New Delhi needs in respect of international security perception.

The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.

European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.

In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

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.

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism – making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that’s able to stand on its own feet.

A parliamentary democracy that has developed its delicate balances over hundreds of years will not give up its sovereign rights.

When you’re dealing with a bankrupt sovereign – like the U.S. government – you’re dealing with a very powerful wounded bear. You have to be very careful because you can’t know what the beast is going to do.

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.

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.

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It’s our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I don’t want to drive the markets crazy. I don’t want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The British people voted to take back control of our borders, trade, money and laws. They chose a bright future as a free, independent and sovereign country.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

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

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Operation Sovereign Borders has worked and delivered a human dividend that is compassionate and fair… our plan is simple. We won’t change it. Labor will.

India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.

If the official community is interested in asking the private sector to take another look at Greece, then it will have to be only as part of a broader process of addressing the full range of sovereign debt issues in Europe.

Sovereign wealth fund money should be welcomed. The only way not to welcome that money is when it’s politically driven.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one’s borders, of one’s internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one’s nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.

We’re an independent sovereign country and that’s very important to Monaco.

Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic ‘partnerships,’ it will loot the sovereign law of countries.

A country isn’t sovereign if we can’t control who comes in and who’s allowed to come in.

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.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country’s infrastructure.

It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.

Occupation – pressing occupation that will not be said nay – is a sovereign remedy for grief.

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights – for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. ‘Free trade’ is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.

The United States can’t dictate outcomes to a sovereign Iraq. But it can support, incentivize and mobilize those willing to move Iraq in the right direction.

I believe it is important for both Russia and Europe that Belarus is a sovereign, independent state where Europeans can feel at home.

Nothing would do more to improve Israel’s security or its relations with its neighbors than to bring about a sovereign and contiguous Palestinian state alongside a secure, democratic, Jewish Israel.

The big insight that I have, not so much from writing ‘Red Notice’ but from living as the main character of ‘Red Notice’, is that Russia was and is a criminal state unlike any other sovereign country.

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

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Shouldn’t the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d’etats as a method of the change of power?

Operation Sovereign Borders has been one of Australia’s greatest national security policy successes.

There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror – actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens – are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.

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