Hooker Ordered

Famous quotes containing the words hooker and/or ordered:

    “He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.”
    —Richard Hooker (1554–1600)

    “The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had ordered his punishment commuted to imprisonment ... and had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)