Exchequer Bonds

Famous quotes containing the words exchequer and/or bonds:

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

“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father’s house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband’s is almost a cloister.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)