Supreme Executive Power

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

    “The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)