Famous quotes containing the words councils and/or govern:
“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What if there’s nothing up there at the top?
Where are the captains that govern mankind?
What tears down a tree that has nothing within it?
A blast of wind, O a marching wind,
March wind, and any old tune,
March march and how does it run.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)