Famous quotes containing the words official, poverty and/or measure:
“In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated
classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)