#sovereign

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#believes #defend #die #force #independence

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

#corrupt #degenerate #exercising #ignorant #incapable

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#evil #man #must #restoring #sovereignty

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God. ↗

— Roy Moore

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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. ↗

— Roy Moore

#basis #centralized #constitution #federalist #flows

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#country #into #many #patches #shreds

With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#germans #great #people #resided #sovereignty

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself. ↗

— Don Nickles

#defend #had #i #independent #israel