Individual Sovereignty Quotes

#1. Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

L. Neil Smith

#2. To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government ... The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

Lawrence Hunter

#4. In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm ... has no share in the sovereignty.

Roger B. Taney

#5. It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

Paddy Ashdown

#6. He knew women early and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. All social change begins with a conversation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#8. Jesus is Lord" is the church's earliest confession. It remains the abiding test of authentic Christianity. Neither the church nor the individual believer can afford to compromise Christ's deity. In His sovereignty lies His sufficiency. He will be Lord of everything or not Lord at all.

Jack Hayford

#9. When you think what happened to you is the end of the world, just hold your head up and look around you, you will see that the world is there, ready to give you new things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.

Steven Pressfield

#11. If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.

Robert Thurman

#12. If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

George Nethercutt

#13. Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

Walter E. Williams

#14. Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

Emma Goldman

#15. To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

Anwar Sadat

#16. I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different

Philippa Gregory

#17. The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Clarence Darrow

#18. All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

Lucy Grealy

#19. Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#20. A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

Roger B. Taney

#21. When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

Kelli O'Hara

#22. Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Josiah Warren

#23. The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#24. Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Jeremy Taylor

#25. If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.

Marsha Blackburn

#26. Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can.

Ronda Rousey

#27. Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles its dull way toward me. It is I who must take the step. Through the fire. And come unto you.

Caryl Phillips

#28. It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Johan Huizinga

#29. I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

Alan Wilson

#30. Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

Manly Hall