Supreme Executive Power

Famous quotes containing the words supreme, executive and/or power:

“Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they’ve always one foot on the ground and the other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.”
—François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553)

“When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“What is good?—Everything that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)