Sovereign Quotes - Page 12

• I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Religious, Book, Hands

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 166, 1980.

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• The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

  Beilby Porteus

  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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• The law of karma is neither fatalistic nor punitive; nor is man a hapless, helpless victim in its bonds. God has blessed each one of us with reason, intellect and discrimination, as well as the sovereign free will. Even when our past karma inclines us toward evil, we can consciously tune our inclination towards detachment and ego-free action, thus lightening the karmic load.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Blessed, Past

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• We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

  George Noory

  Class, Government, Giving

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• Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

  Thomas Paine

  Drinking, Europe, Vanity

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.410

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• [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Aversion, Honorable

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.886, Modern Library

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• Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

  Barón de Montesquieu

  Disappointment, Reading, Study

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• Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

  Edward Gibbon

  Attachment, History, Important

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.175

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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.

  Aristotle

  Government, Facts, Constitution

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  Lord Acton

  Fighting, Rights, Civilization

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• Las fortunas amasadas a través de la organización corporativa son ahora tan grandes, y confieren tal poder a quienes las manejan, que es una cuestión de necesidad dar al soberano -es decir, al Gobierno, que representa al pueblo en su conjunto- algún poder efectivo de supervisión sobre su uso corporativo. Para asegurar una vida social e industrial saludable, toda gran empresa debe ser considerada responsable y rendir cuentas ante un soberano lo suficientemente fuerte como para controlar su conducta.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Government, Order

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Ultimate Collection: Memoirs, History Books, Biographies, Essays, Speeches &Executive Orders: America and the World War, The Ancient Irish Sagas, The Naval War of 1812, Hero Tales From American History, Winning of the West, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, History as Literature...”, p.3320, Madison & Adams Press

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• Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sadness, Remedy, Activity

  Myrtle Reed (1911). “Master of the Vineyard”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• Lo que se supone que ocurre en una democracia es que cada ciudadano soberano votará siempre en interés público por la seguridad y el bienestar de todos. Pero lo que sí ocurre es que vota su propio interés según lo ve... lo que para la mayoría se traduce en "Pan y Circo".

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Self, Safety, Democracy

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• Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Anarchy, Absence, Masters

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.134, AK Press

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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.

  Aristotle

  Character, May, Moral

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Pleasure, Mould

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: (VI, 507 p.)”, p.377

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, Men, Philosopher

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Reason, Conscience

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (p. 242), 1901.

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• Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

  Menajem Begin

  Israel, Land, Needs

  "Iron Wall". Book by Lenni Brenner, 1984.

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• All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1er Barón Kenyon

  Wise, Government, Public Opinion

  Trial of John Vint and others, 27 How. St. Tr. 640, 1799.

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• Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.

  David Cannadine

  Daughter, Kings, Son

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• Aunque Dios no es el autor del mal y nunca fomenta ni condona el pecado, nada ocurre sin su soberana supervisión. Puede que otros decidan hacer el mal y que el pueblo de Dios sufra a corto plazo, pero Él transformará las malas intenciones de los malvados en oportunidades para el enriquecimiento de los que están a su cuidado.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Opportunity, Evil People, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.250, Thomas Nelson

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• Satan can do only what the sovereign God allows him to do.

  R. C. Sproul

  Satan, Can Do

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• Entre mujeres, el amor es contemplativo; las caricias tienen menos por objeto apoderarse de la otra que recrear gradualmente el yo a través de ella; la separación queda abolida, no hay lucha, ni victoria, ni derrota; en exacta reciprocidad, cada una es a la vez sujeto y objeto, soberana y esclava; la dualidad se convierte en mutualidad.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lucha, Amor, Es, Uno Mismo

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). "El segundo sexo", Vintage

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• Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Power, Men

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