#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

#amenable #any #body #concerns #conduct

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

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#machinery #make #people #poor #rich

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#came #constitutional #define #highest #i

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#amendment #congress #continues #national #national sovereignty

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. ↗

— Albert Pike

#liberty #over #self #sovereignty

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#difficult #finance #finding #high #itself

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

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#citizen #foreigner #harm #inflicting #must