War Council

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or council:

    “You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “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)