Quotes About Chieftain

Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people, including the people who voted against him. He is, in effect, a tribal chieftain who has declared war on half of the country.

Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftanOf tan with henna hackles, halt!

Fire comes in all intensities. A hotter tongue of flame can devour another. Surely the hottest can sear a man clean." —UILLEAM ANDRIU MACRIEVE, CHIEFTAIN OF THE NOVA SCOTIA SETTLEMENT OF CLAN MACRIEVE

In reply to Roman peace offers, the chieftain Calgacus called the Romans 'the ruffians of the world', and said that 'to plunder, slaughter and robbery they give the lying name of empire; they make a desert and call it peace'.2

Sô Candelário chega exclamava, chorava: dizia que nunca tinha chefiado pessoal tão valente feito nós, com tantas capacidades.

The ringleader was a young Germanic chieftain, known to us only by his Romanized name of Arminius.

The chieftain Rollo and his men were given the town of Rouen and the surrounding region as far as the sea and possibly some way up the Seine. Rollo was probably also baptized. This became the basis for the Duchy of Normandy.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Reluctantly he turned to Ramsay. "Jillian, I'd like you to meet--" Ramsay Logan," Ramsay interrupted, thrusting himself forward. "Chieftan of the largest keep in the Highlands and--" "My ass, you are." Quinn snorted. "The Logan scarcely has a pot to"--he broke off and cleared his throat--"cook in.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

The old chieftain's eyes were bleak. "Is that all you have left to offer me from your bag of tricks, druid? Hope?"  "Hope is priceless," Coran assured him.  "Hope is what's left at the bottom of the bag," Hundred Battles said. "Like lint.

In the Philippines, Magellan blundered into a confrontation with a combative local chieftain, Lapu Lapu.

We are told how Washington carried this little book in his pocket through the Indian wars and how his life was saved by it receiving bullets or arrows aimed at the great chieftain."23 (It apparently never occurred to Rev. Robinson to wonder why there were no bullet or arrow holes in the book's pages in Henkels's facsimile reproduction.) Naturally,

One specimen of this method will suffice: It is reasonably certain that a petty chieftain named Arthur did exist, probably in South Wales. It is possible that he may have held some military command uniting the tribal forces of the Celtic or highland zone or part of it against raiders and invaders (not all of them necessarily Teutonic). It is also possible that he may have engaged in all or some of the battles attributed to him; on the other hand, this attribution may belong to a later date.

And Cnaiür grinned as only a Chieftain of the Utemot could grin. The neck of the world, it seemed, lay pressed against the point of his sword. I shall butcher. All hungered here. All starved.