Public Accounts Committee

Famous quotes containing the words public, accounts and/or committee:

    “Instead of offering the Indians a chance to surrender, and to be taken peaceably, General Connor issued a very cruel order to his men—’Take no prisoners, fight to the death; nits breed lice.’”
    —State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)