Poor Law Amendment

Famous quotes containing the words poor, law and/or amendment:

    “Old Mother Hubbard
    Went to the cupboard
    To get her poor dog a bone:
    But when she got there
    The cupboard was bare,
    And so the poor dog had none.”
    —Sarah Catherine Martin (1768–1826)

    “The wit of man has devised cruel statutes,
    And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1934)