Defence Council

Defence Council may refer to:

  • Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives
  • Defence Council of the United Kingdom, the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories
  • Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or council:

    “Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.”
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)