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#sovereign

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You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.


Michael Novak


#citizen #doing #government #involved #job

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.


Sean Penn


#american soldiers #attack #civilians #innocent #innocent civilians

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#continuing #control #enough #government #informed

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.


Russell Smith


#indian #permits #sovereign #tribe

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.


Randall Terry


#civil #civil government #code #god #government

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.


Jack Cade


#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.


Leonard Cohen


#condition #constitution #covenant #dreams #every

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.


Horst Koehler


#both #both sides #capable #compromise #country

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.


Eugen Herrigel


#artist #awaken #considers #control #craft

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.


Thomas Hobbes


#last #long #longer #obligation #power






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