Reign Quotes

• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  Islom Karimov

  Kind Deeds, Justice, Liberty

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• My chains are gone
  I've been set free
  My God, my Savior has ransomed me
  And like a flood His mercy reigns
  Unending love, amazing grace!

  Chris Tomlin

  Grace, Gone, Mercy

  FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Feb 09, 2014

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• May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Joy, Understanding, Humanity

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• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

  Nelson Mandela

  Freedom, Achievement, Sun

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Years, Grace And Mercy

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

  William Cowper

  House, Solitude, Alarms

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Earth, Christ

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• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  Tacitus

  History, Ability, Emperor

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  John Milton

  Death, War, Paradise

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

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• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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• He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

  Louis XI of France

  War, Hypocrisy, Can Not

  "Hist. de France", Volume II, (p. 30) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 682-686), 1922.

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• Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

  Seneca the Younger

  Submit, Greater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

  Elizabeth I

  Shepherds, Ashes, Left

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• As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

  Bao ?ai

  Years, Twenties, Bitterness

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• You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

  John Buchan

  Life, Wall, Thinking

  1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

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• It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Men, Order, Political

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• To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

  Sarah Palin

  Cutting, Government, Mind

  "Sarah Palin Talks Immigration, Economy and Political Future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2010.

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• I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Catholic, Be A Man

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• Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Country, Fate, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Therefore, I think that in the celebration of the 50 years of the present reign, there must be research on the changes that the country has undergone, and in the future, it could be used as a lesson for our future actions.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

  Golda Meir

  Fashion, Imposition

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• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Art, Restoration

  "The eyes of the beholder" by Camille Paglia, www.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 1991.

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• God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Order, Needs

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

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