Humble Petition

Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or petition:

“All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:12.

“Clay answered the petition by declaring that while he looked on the institution of slavery as an evil, it was ‘nothing in comparison with the far greater evil which would inevitably flow from a sudden and indiscriminate emancipation.’”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)