Town Councils

Famous quotes containing the words town and/or councils:

“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)