Poor Law System

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

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
—Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)

“While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)