National Merit

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or merit:

    “This is the first national administration we’ve ever seen where the housewife couldn’t afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn’t afford to grow them.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)