Famous quotes containing the words council and/or decreed:
“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)