Sovereign Military Order

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

    “If a Sovereign should, by great accident, deviate into moderation, justice, and clemency, what a contemptible figure would he make in the catalogue of Princes!”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking—and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
    —Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)