Sovereign Bonds

Famous quotes containing the words sovereign and/or bonds:

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

    For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,—he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)