“The Republic of China is a sovereign state, a constructive member of the international community and a lively democratic society, ... Taiwan's admission to the U.N. will be conducive to peace, prosperity and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.”
Chen Shui-bian
“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”
William James
“Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.”
Louis XIV
“The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”
Walter Bagehot
“ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
Charles de Montesquieu
