General Assembly Held

Famous quotes containing the words general, assembly and/or held:

    “What use Milton, a silly story
    Of our lost general parents,
    eaters of fruit?”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)