Law and Government
- Lawyer
- Privy Councillor, a member of a Privy Council
- Minister-counsellor, a high-ranking diplomat
- Counsellors of State are senior members of the British royal family to whom the Monarch can delegate certain state functions and powers in case of their unavailability.
- Counselor of the United States Department of State, a confidential adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State
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Famous quotes containing the words law and, law and/or government:
““Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 22:36-40.
“Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.”
—Ardel Wray. Mark Robson. Thea (Ellen Drew)
“Nor the tame will, nor timid brain,
Nor heavy knitting of the brow
Bred that fierce tooth and cleanly limb
And threw him up to laugh on the bough;
No government appointed him.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)