Famous quotes containing the words union and/or councils:
“If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)