Break Quote by Jack Cade

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

Law is the sovereign of sovereigns

— Louis Xiv

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

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it…

— H. G. Wells

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in…

— Anonymous

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

“LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

— Voltaire

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate.

— Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

— Anonymous

“In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign’s business. Having no standing…

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed…

— Baron de Montesquieu