Sovereign

Famous quotes containing the word sovereign:

    “If these were only words that I am speaking
    Indifferent sounds and not the heraldic-ho
    Of the clear sovereign that is reality,
    Of the clearest reality that is sovereign,
    How should I repeat them, keep repeating them....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.”
    —Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)

    “Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)