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“All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.”

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Author:Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

“True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.”

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Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham

“In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.”

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Author:Horace Bushnell

“I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty.”

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Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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

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Author:Michael Tsarion

“[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.”

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Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire