States General Assembled

Famous quotes containing the words states, general and/or assembled:

“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)

“One general builds his success on ten thousand bleaching bones.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”
—Lord Denning (b. 1899)