Sovereign Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.

  Thomas Gray

  Air, Wind, Sea

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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.

  Menachem Begin

  Israel, Land, Needs

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

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• Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Play, Evil

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.89, David C Cook

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• True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Faith, Religious, True Faith

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• The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Chinese, Firsts, Reactions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

  Robert A. Burton

  Men, Land, Smoking

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• Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Adversity, Two, Hopeful

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• We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  War, Prussia, Action

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• We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

  Francis Bacon

  Business, Men, Fame

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Intelligent

  John Adams (1965). “The John Adams papers”

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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, 1st Baron 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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• A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

  David Mallet

  People, Inspire, Noble

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• People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

  Michael Horton

  People, Praying, Ask Me

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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.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Inquiry, Belief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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• Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Giving, Grace, Praise

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1840). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.”, p.854

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• We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

  Joshua Harris

  Mistake, Past, Matter

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• Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

  Edward Young

  Heart, Sight, Heaven

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.51

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• Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Human Nature, Humans

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

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