Mccreery Duly Elected

Famous quotes containing the words mccreery, duly and/or elected:

“They are not dead! They have but passed
Beyond the mists that blind us here
Into the new and larger life
Of that serener sphere.”
—John Luckey McCreery (1835–1906)

“A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find a culprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Utah is the only State that gives condemned men a choice between death by hanging or before a firing squad. Most prisoners prefer the firing squad, but one obstinate convict in 1912 elected to be hanged because “hanging is more expensive to the state.””
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)