Quote by Louis Xiv

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

— Louis XIV

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

— Vine Deloria Jr

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

— Carl Schmitt

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Voltaire

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

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

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without…

— Jack Cade

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

— Denis Diderot

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Walter Scott

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr