Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 301 Sovereignty quotesSovereignty QuotesSovereignty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.~ Justice William O. Douglas Government of the self was the original basis for republican government, reflecting the view that civil society was much more than politics. Society was made up of men and women who gave order to their lives by entering into associations on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy, faith and commerce.~ Hans L. Eicholz Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.~ Oliver Ellsworth He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.~ Epictetus In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.~ Desiderius Erasmus Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.~ Justice Stephen J. Field Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.~ Viktor Frankl The States acceded to the Union.~ Benjamin Franklin Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.~ Benjamin Franklin When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.~ Benjamin Franklin Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.~ Benjamin Franklin That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay no one.~ Benjamin Franklin Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.~ David D. Friedman The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula “I am we”; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an “individual,” existing apart from his group.~ Erich Fromm English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony Froude We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.~ Rowan Gaither The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.~ Albert Gallatin Good government is the most dangerous government, because it deprives people of the need to look after themselves.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print