Poor Law System

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

“One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it,
And therefore frame the law unto my will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)