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141 " If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. "
142 " There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics. "
143 " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. "
― Jeremy Bentham , The Principles of Morals and Legislation
144 " The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them. "
145 " NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. "
146 " The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. "
147 " The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. "
148 " Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. "
149 " The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows. "
150 " Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. "
151 " Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God. "
