Council Quotes
345 quotes by 279 authors
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Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to…
— Barack Obama
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Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads.…
— Peter Cosgrove
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As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had…
— Neville Bonner
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We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . .…
— Red Cloud
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I am honored to be both an active surrogate and a member of the RNC's Hispanic advisory council. The national effort to work seamlessly with…
— Rosario Marin
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a…
— Ben Jonson
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Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,…
— Ken Bates
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I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the…
— Vladimir Putin
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What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down…
— Saint Augustine
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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,…
— Saint Augustine
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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to…
— Saint Augustine
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This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
— James Madison
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Good council has no price.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears…
— George Washington
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If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be…
— Roger Sherman
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I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
— Richard Attenborough
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Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate…
— Charlton Heston
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