Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"Sovereignty is not given, it is taken."
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Sovereignty
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live."
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Take a firm grasp on God’s sovereignty and trust His love even when you don’t understand His purpose."
Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty."
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"God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility."
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"Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people."
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"It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself."
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"Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek."
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"In sovereignty there are no gradations."
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