Village Council President

Famous quotes containing the words village, council and/or president:

    “Where village statesmen talked with looks profound,
    And news much older than their ale went round.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d 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,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment—the sober second thought—of the people.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)