Quotes about Sovereignty
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
- Millard Fillmore
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
- Samuel Rutherford
Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.
- Joel Osteen
We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.
- Ronald Reagan
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
- Stephen Colbert
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton