Quotes about Sovereignty

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.

We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!