Popular Sovereignty Theory

Famous quotes containing the words popular, sovereignty and/or theory:

    “The poet will prevail to be popular in spite of his faults, and in spite of his beauties too. He will hit the nail on the head, and we shall not know the shape of his hammer. He makes us free of his hearth and heart, which is greater than to offer one the freedom of a city.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I think he’ll be to Rome
    As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it
    By sovereignty of nature.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)