Spencer Perceval/solicitor and Attorney General 1801-1806

Famous quotes containing the words spencer, attorney and/or general:

    “Here the sausage and garlic booth
    Sent unholy incense skyward;
    There a quivering female-thing
    Gestured assignations, and lied
    To call it dancing;”
    —Anne Spencer (1882–1975)

    “Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
    —Truman Capote (1924–1984)

    “The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)