Poor Relief

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or relief:

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)