War Chief

War chief can refer to

  • Warlord
  • Tribal chief during wartime, particularly among indigenous peoples of the Americas

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or chief:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

    “The Chief Defect of Henry King
    Was chewing little bits of String.
    At last he swallowed some which tied
    Itself in ugly Knots inside.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)