Sovereigns Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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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
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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…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters…
— Susan B. Anthony
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[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
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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
— Louis XIV
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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…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
— Cleopatra
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then…
— David Starkey
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In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.
— Benjamin Franklin
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think,…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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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…
— Michael Ignatieff
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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…
— Paul Singer
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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…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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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
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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…
— Stacy Schiff
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The success of our admirable system is a conclusive refutation of the theories of those in other countries who maintain that a "favored few" are…
— James K Polk
Who Wrote These Sovereigns Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Sovereigns Quotes as follows: