County Councils

Famous quotes containing the words county and/or councils:

“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)