#sovereign

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

#between #born #end #freedom #government

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#caused #effort #england #growth #immense

You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.' ↗

— Salma Hayek

#celebrate #choice #different #freedom #kingdom

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#induced #institutions #internationally #into #measure

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#crazy #create #debt #develop #done

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#duty #fame #government #his #honour

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. ↗

— Louis XIV

#sovereigns

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

#forms #great #inspires #noble #people

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