Quotes about Sovereignty
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
— RC Sproul
A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.
— Tony Evans
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
— Elie Wiesel
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.
— Benjamin Netanyahu