#chiefs

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#chiefs #fight #forever #hear #heart

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. ↗

— Black Kettle

#give #here #i #i want you #made

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#conduct #council #declarations #degree #disposition

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#did #doors #down #father #go

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#drops #god #handkerchief #handkerchiefs #his

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#enormous #excitement #flew #handkerchiefs #hats

One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois. ↗

— Jacques Marquette

#his #illinois #lake #men #nation