Quotes about Sovereignty

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state35 it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth.

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God

Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.

The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.