Famous quotes containing the words sovereign, debt and/or crisis:
“Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
Of snails, musician of pears, principium
And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
Preceptor to the sea?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Ambition’s debt is paid.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A crisis unmasks everyone.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)