Small City Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words small, city and/or franchise:

    “‘Or like small gnats and flies, as thick as mist
    On evening marches, thronged about the brow
    Of lawyers, statesmen, priest and theorist;—”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “What life is best?
    Courts are but only superficial schools
    To dandle fools:
    The rural parts are turned into a den
    Of savage men:
    And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
    But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)