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.
quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Give people
Give people their dues
Or face revolution.
Being the representative
And in service
You have no right
To say anything contrary
Against the original
documentation.
Leave it to sovereign
And people has got
sovereignty
Show your entity
Make treaty.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.
quote by John Warner
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I have heard something said on this and a former occasion about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. I owe allegiance to two sovereignty, and only two: one is the sovereignty of this Union, and the other is the sovereignty of the state of Kentucky. My allegiance is to this Union and to my state; but if gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an acknowledgement of allegiance to any ideal or future contemplated confederacy of the South, I here declare that I owe no allegiance to it; nor will I, for one, come under any such allegiance if I can avoid it.
quote by Henry Clay
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
quote by Alija Izetbegovic
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
quote by Ulrich Beck
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If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
quote by Robert Mugabe
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
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An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.
quote by Russell Smith
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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
quote by Jonathan Mayhew
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It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind.
quote by Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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You who live
You who live now in this world
And which live sovereign in virtue,
It is to you death remembered?
Your fathers are in the deep pit
Eaten worms, without lance and ecu,
You who live now in this world
And which reign sovereign in virtue.
Warn there and carry out round life,
Because while living will be cold and chanu,
Because in the end will die pare and naked.
You who live now in this world
And which reign sovereign in virtue
It is to you death remembered?
poem by Eustache Deschamps
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All Nations Accountable Before God
All sovereign countries
are important to God.
All nations peoples
cultures are important to God.
Yet in the United Nations
few countries really count
select few dominate veto vote
decide fate of peoples nations
carve up choice world spoils.
United Nations politic monopoly
an African country exploited here
an Arab country oil carved up there
all impinges upon sovereign rights
cultural heritage civilian liberty
innocent lives lambs slaughter slavery
invade Muslim Afghanistan Iraq Libya
occasionally get United Nations
approval for chosen conflict zones
naive believe agenda NATO flying pilots
create war on terrorism justified slogans
but forget not divine God knows plans
time avenges cultures nations peoples
proud pharaoh his nation suffered plagues
all nations eventually judged as God says
poem by Terence George Craddock
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modern ideology, poetically modified........NATIONALISM
The low sun lulls the bay of sovereignty
a modern patriots liff back
the blooded heroic history
preserving native ground
for today's pride
future's integrity
poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan
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Malaysiana - Pulau Batu Putih
Pulau Batu Putih
I feel a part of myself
gone too
Pulau Batu Putih
the white stone we fail
to sign our name on
Pulau Batu Putih
the white song we forgot
to sign our name on
MAY 23,2008
THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice ruled Friday in favour of Singapore in a 28-year sovereignty dispute with Malaysia over the tiny, uninhabited island of Pulau Batu Puteh.
'The court, by 12 votes to four, finds that sovereignty... belongs to the Republic of Singapore, ' Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh said, reading out the ruling. - AFP
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
quote by Kemal Ataturk
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
quote by Kwame Nkrumah
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I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
quote by Paul Bremer
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
quote by Albert Pike
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In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
quote by Sun Myung Moon
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Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
quote by Charles Simonyi
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