Law is the sovereign of sovereigns

All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

— Carl Schmitt

For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought…

— William Ernest Hocking

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

— Walter Scott

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

— E.C. Riegel

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign…

— William Whipple

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

— John Roberts

The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

“Sovereigns did not have the luxury of second-guessing or all future commands could be questioned. That could never be. God did not allow his…

— Jeane Westin

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what…

— Thucydides

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not…

— Samir Selmanovic

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson

One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

— Otto von Bismarck