Million Punitive

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or punitive:

    “The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)