Corn Law League

Famous quotes containing the words corn, law and/or league:

    “The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye,
    And it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky.”
    —Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)

    “The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic law of chromatics. Don’t look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best—it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money—provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.”
    —Peter De Vries (b. 1910)