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Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.


Zbigniew Brzezinski

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CARLOS SALINAS DE GORTARI The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of refere...
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Things are the only hidden meaning ...
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MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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GARY F EVANS... What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Sovereign is the source.
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BLAIR LEVIN As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable
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KWAME NKRUMAH In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
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VICTOR HUGO The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games ar...
BILL TOOMEY I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "...
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish so...
GERRY ADAMS When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE The currency is the sovereignty of China. We believe it best to have informal discussions than have ...
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VLADIMIR PUTIN I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
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GERALD BOURKE Sovereignty is back on the agenda.
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A. W. TOZER The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is ...
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