Famous quotes containing the words elder and/or committee:
“Carthage must be destroyed.
[Delenda est Carthago.]”
—Marcus Porcius Cato The Elder (234149 B.C.)
“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)