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«If you open that Pandora's Box (the Council of Europe), you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out»
«All wars are planned by old men In council rooms apart.»
«Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.»
«I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans»
«There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.»
«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»
«Hope warps judgment in council, but quickens energy in action»
«Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution»
«In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?»
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»

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