Claim

Famous quotes containing the word claim:

“Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner’s claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, ‘A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!’”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.”
—George Moore (1852–1933)