Poor Relief

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or relief:

“Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“He is a poor man and has got behind-hand and when that’s the case, there is no staying in the settlements; for those varmints, the sheriffs and constables, are worse than the Indians, because you can kill Indians and you dare not kill the sheriffs.”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)