Sovereign

Famous quotes containing the word sovereign:

    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)

    Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
    Georges Bataille (1897–1962)