Poor Law System

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

“But the dirty little coward that shot Mister Howard,
He laid poor Jesse in his grave.”
—Unknown. Jesse James (l. Chorus)

“A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet’s year is completed, it will be found to be central.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)