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sovereign
«Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dispossess, dispossessed, dispossessing, machinery, sovereign, sovereigns, the poor
«Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Effort,
Government,
Mankind,
Nature,
Pain,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
confirm, demonstrate, pain and pleasure, sovereign, subjection, throw off
«Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost»
Author: Josiah Warren
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
acknowledged, cost, cost of living, individual liberty, legitimate, sovereign, sovereignty
«I have been asked on hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
allows, compassion, confess, hundreds, in the midst, mercy, midst, My own, satisfaction, sovereign, sovereigns, totally, tragedy
«LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blacken, blackened, blackens, crowned, Crown Royal, drugging, hair color, hair cut, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, laureate, Laurel, laurels, leave office, officer, Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, royal court, Samson, Southey, sovereign, The Knack
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Business,
Mankind,
Politics
| Keywords:
servants, sovereign, Sovereign state, thrice
«I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| Keywords:
embodiment, established, Faith in the Future, glorious, ideals, Israel, sovereign, sovereigns, The Embodiment
