Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or bedford:
“All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)