Poor Law Bill

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

    The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
    Lillian Hellman (1907–1984)