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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain,
Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune
That death smote silent when he smote again. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions. — Kevin DeYoung

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe ... governed by the sovereign will of God. — James Prescott Joule

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. — R.C. Sproul

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore De Balzac

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. — James K. Polk

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. — Carl Schmitt

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. — Hamid Karzai

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. — Russell Smith

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. — Robert Toombs

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation. — Sun Tzu

Until His sovereign will becomes your sanctified wish, your prayer life will be unplugged from its power supply. — Mark Batterson

Bellona? is all the Sovereign can say before he presses the button. — Pierce Brown

Sin is lawlessness and constitutes the doer thereof a rebel against the righteous rule of His sovereign Lord. — C.F.W. Walther

God's sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it. — R.C. Sproul

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius. — Lady Sovereign

It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre. — Lady Sovereign

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable. — Noam Chomsky

The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world. — Thomas Carlyle

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone. — David Platt

Don't ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan. — K. Howard Joslin

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace. — Charles Spurgeon

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all. — R.C. Sproul

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good. — John Piper

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. — Nigel Farage

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life. — David Jeremiah

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. — Eugene Delacroix

Egypt is a sovereign nation. — William Hague

But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties! — Mark Batterson

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People. — Charles James Fox

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. — Jo Baker

The necessity of creation is the sovereign power of choice — Sunday Adelaja

I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom ... — N. T. Wright

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. — Ellen Swallow Richards

A sovereign, united and strong Iraq is beneficial for everyone. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not. — R.C. Sproul

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — B. B. Warfield

Away from the sovereign territory of our nation of two, we talked like the patriotic lunatics all around us. — Kurt Vonnegut

A sovereign should never launch an army out of anger, a leader should never start a war out of wrath — Sun Tzu

Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation. — Pedro Pierluisi

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. — Alvin Toffler

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand. — Benny Hinn

The Sovereign Lord is our secured safety refuge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria. — Sergei Lavrov

Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom. — William Shakespeare

I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification. — Matt Chandler

Every breath I take is a testimony that my God is alive and He's a sovereign God. — Euginia Herlihy

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! — John Adams

We must settle in our hearts that no matter what, God is sovereign. — Beth Moore

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. — Sun Tzu

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist. — Lady Sovereign

I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you. — Brandon Sanderson

The most pregnant sentence I have ever heard ... God is sovereign in all things, and all problems find their solution at Calvary. — J.I. Packer

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. — William Shakespeare

Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you. — Rick Warren

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. — David Mallet

Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues. — Myrtle Reed

Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at. — Pliny The Elder

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. — William Whipple

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should. — Bernard Bailyn

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things. — David Platt

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law. — Fulton J. Sheen

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. — Edward Gibbon

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say. — Lady Sovereign

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. — Andrew Jackson

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq. — Dick Cheney

Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Everyone grows, everyone has their moments and stuff. — Lady Sovereign

I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too. — Marissa Meyer

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it — Michael Tsarion

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. — Taliesin

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one. — Alan Caruba

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least. — Mencius

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people. — Ludwig Von Mises

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign. — R.C. Sproul

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance. — Randy Alcorn

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund. — Malcolm Turnbull

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him. — Jerry Bridges

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. — William Shakespeare

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label. — Lady Sovereign

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. — Denis Diderot

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system. — Al Gore

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime. — Lady Sovereign

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

The Jews supposed that the Messiah would be the sovereign of the world. In reality, He was to become the Savior of the world. — Martin Luther

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire — Thucydides

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny. — Marine Le Pen

Lothaire Konstantin Daciano, Sovereign of Dacia, the Realm of Blood and Mist. — Kresley Cole