Supreme Interests

Famous quotes containing the words supreme and/or interests:

“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)

“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)