Humble Petition

Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or petition:

“I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’re going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?”
—Joan Baez (b. 1941)

“Clay answered the petition by declaring that while he looked on the institution of slavery as an evil, it was ‘nothing in comparison with the far greater evil which would inevitably flow from a sudden and indiscriminate emancipation.’”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)