Legal Tender Act

Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or act:

    “No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
    —Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    “Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “but when lust
    By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
    But most by lewd and lavish act of sin,
    Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
    The soul grows clotted by contagion,
    Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose
    The divine property of her first being.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)