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True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.


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KELLY JONES The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura...
LYSANDER SPOONER Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS No one is arguing that the entire Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 2 is the most impor...
LUTHER STRANGE Nobody has the mandate to sign an agreement which violates our full rights. The right of return, ful...
MARWAN BARGHOUTI Person has the right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid th...
ILKIN SANTAK The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered...
ALBERT GALLATIN The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
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MARQUIS DE SADE ...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovere...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Same sex marriage is not an expression of human right but human wrong. Any nation that rationalizes ...
SYLLABUS ONAJOBI What's the meaning of making a fuss of these trivialities, which are mostly unintended? It may also ...
WANG WEI The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individu...
ALBERT GALLATIN There is absolutely no excuse for the disgraceful scenes in Dublin today. It is the essence of Irish...
BERTIE AHERN The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
IRENE KHAN Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people...
BEN SHAPIRO I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on a...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the pe...
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DICK SIMPSON The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none c...
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PAULINE MAROIS China's territory and sovereignty are indivisible and brook no violation, ... Taiwan is an inalienab...
TANG JIAXUAN I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there'...
MARINE LE PEN If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, ...
LYSANDER SPOONER I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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VISHWAS CHAVAN Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and a...
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ADRIAN CRONAUER My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of I...
SHIRIN EBADI Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, ...
PAUL BRUNTON In sovereignty there are no gradations
SAMUEL JOHNSON Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ...
AYN RAND Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sov...
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Liberals have this pathetic little habit of dealing with people as members of groups, rather than as...
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FRANK LINDH It's very simple. The question is who owns the copyright. Ed Condren and I say the instructors do. S...
DAVID NOBLE Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the ent...
GIAMBATTISTA VICO Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, whi...
ROBERT CASEY Making generalizations about an entire group of people is blatant bigotry. There are no peer-reviewe...
RANDY COX For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the projec...
PAULINE MAROIS The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other member...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that mak...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no other state in the nation — and no other civilized nation on Earth — that has a law li...
PETER HAMM There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, be...
LIU XIAOBO True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...
JONATHAN SACKS Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no...
JAMES C. DOBSON No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his co...
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL Of course, they will use watever they have in their hand, which is the U.N. Security Council, and ou...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to educatio...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform ...
RICHARD PERLE There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is ...
FRANKLIN GRAHAM A citizen of the United States, means a member of this new nation. The principle of government being...
DAVID RAMSAY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submis...
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER There needs to be greater awareness on a wider level of the rights of women and children and also pu...
HINA JILANI In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All English...
ROGER B. TANEY Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people f...
OSAMA SIBLANI Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true,...
BRYANT H. MCGILL The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...
LYSANDER SPOONER The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which "the right to a...
HANNAH ARENDT But again Jordan has the right to exercise its sovereignty and to take sovereign decisions when they...
NASSER JUDEH Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY The president has no right to share the sovereignty of this country. If the president is not going t...
SOMAWANSA AMARASINGHE Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin...
ROBERT KENNEDY Sovereignty...as understood in the Declaration of Independence was originally, and by nature, the eq...
HARRY V. JAFFA No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.
IVICA DACIC I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.
PAUL BREMER True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is t...
BRYANT H. MCGILL Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almight...
HAROLD HOLZER People who are not fully enlightened have no business becoming parents. This contradicts the convent...
DANIEL MACKLER This bill conflicts with the Equal Access Act that was passed to help guarantee and protect the righ...
MARGARET PLANE There is no true de-regulation or open-skies policy in Asia. Even if they are not government owned t...
DAVID PETTIGREW Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and...
SAMUEL ADAMS Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and...
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AI WEIWEI There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.
JOSEPH BONAPARTE Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of ...
THOMAS SANKARA There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's...
SUSAN POWTER I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural pow...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the so...
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MARQUIS DE SADE But a wife..."
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VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, an...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and th...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others
MARQUIS DE SADE My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather...
MARQUIS DE SADE Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE All men are born truthful,and die liars.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of...
MARQUIS DE SADE The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most ...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because y...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
MARQUIS DE SADE Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of whic...
MARQUIS DE SADE All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE “All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another."
MARQUIS DE SADE To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simp...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...
MARQUIS DE SADE The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpleton...
MARQUIS DE SADE In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind
MARQUIS DE SADE 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolitio...
MARQUIS DE SADE Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
MARQUIS DE SADE Few maxims are true in every respect
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE More are taken in by hope than by cunning
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE More fortunes are made by energy than prudence
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
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