We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. Aldous Huxley
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker. Walter M. Miller, Jr.
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world. Sadao Araki
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. J. F. C. Fuller
His bow to me must have been calculated on a slide rule; it suggested that I was about to be Supreme Minister but was not quite there yet, that I was his senior but nevertheless a civilian - then subtract five degrees for the fact that he wore the Emperor's aiguillette on his right shoulder. Robert A. Heinlein
The Thibet priests have methods of their own of discovering what Man is Greatest, fit to be supreme over them. Bad methods: but are they so much worse than our methods,-of understanding him to be always the eldest-born of a certain genealogy? Alas, it is a difficult thing to find good methods for! Thomas Carlyle