#sovereign

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation. ↗

— John Abizaid

#certainly #defend #efficient #enough #forces

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#burdened #condition #crushes #deliberate #free

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

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

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

— Sun Myung Moon

#evil #man #must #restoring #sovereignty

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. ↗

— George Osborne

#bank #central #central bank #debt #dissipated

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#body #interests #international #long-term #nations

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her