Sovereigns Quotes

21 Sovereigns quotes by 20 unique authors

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
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
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles. — Hans F. Sennholz
. . . 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
[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
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. — Louis XIV
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
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. — Rabindranath Tagore
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. — Cleopatra
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
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. — Baron de Montesquieu
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
The sovereigns of the Internet are acting like they have a divine right to govern. — Rebecca MacKinnon
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
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
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
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
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
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
Law is the sovereign of sovereigns — Louis Xiv

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