(38 quotes found)
“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 Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.”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
“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”
Voltaire
“Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travelers to cross their strictly guarded borders”
Rabindranath Tagore
“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Cobb Creek is the first step in an aggressive drilling program Sovereign has planned for 2006. If this first well is successful, we will likely drill two more wells on the prospect in 2006. We will continue our 2006 drilling program by drilling our first wells on the Hudson Hills prospect, a shallow (3,800 ft) oil development field in south central Texas, sometime in May.”
Steve Saxon
