Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people."
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Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being."
Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise."
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"Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise."
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"One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation."
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"The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent."
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"We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure."
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"I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose."
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"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
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"There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people."
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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."
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"God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility."
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"Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor."
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"The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality."
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"Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing."
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"A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life."
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"For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible."
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"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government."
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"There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation."
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"Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone."
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"A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them."
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"Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects."
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"Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence."
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