“The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.”
“The only sovereign we could allow to rule us is reason.”
“The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”
“God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.”
“We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.”
“The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.”