Quotes about Sovereignty
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
— John Milton
Therefore Lord God, you are more truly omnipotent, because you have no power through impotence and nothing can be against you.
— Anselm of Canterbury
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
— Thomas Paine
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
— Thomas Paine
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
— George Washington
Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.
— William Henry Harrison
God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
— RC Sproul
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
— BB Warfield
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
— JI Packer
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
— RC Sproul