"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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"Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business."
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"Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state."
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"To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground."
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"Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at."
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"The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system."
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"There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable."
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"The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world."
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"From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation."
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"The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy."
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"The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."
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"Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature."
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"I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable."
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"Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues."
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