Famous quotes containing the words village, council and/or president:
“The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.”
—Marshall McLuhan (19111980)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of Englands Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstaind with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killd with report that old man eloquent;”
—John Milton (16081674)
“Taft, laughing, What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not himself. To Charles: I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)