Spencer Perceval/chancellor of The Exchequer 1807-1809

Famous quotes containing the words spencer, chancellor and/or exchequer:

    “Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    “No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary—not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn’t want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)