#sovereigns

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns. ↗

— Louis XIV

#sovereigns

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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