Sovereign Military Order

Famous quotes containing the words sovereign, military and/or order:

    “The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self- respect.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)