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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. -- Louis XIV
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms. -- Michael Ignatieff
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again enjoy for another 2,000 years. You could call them early feminists, if I may use a dirty word. -- Stacy Schiff
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined. -- Paul Singer
The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it. -- John Roberts
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns -- E.C. Riegel
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. -- Benjamin Franklin
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. -- Rabindranath Tagore
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles. -- Hans F. Sennholz
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. -- Cleopatra
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers. -- Walter Scott
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. -- George Bernard Shaw
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. -- Horace Mann
The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns. -- Lord Byron
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. -- Glenn Reynolds
The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone... -- Alphonsus Liguori
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. -- Liu Shaoqi
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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