Famous quotes containing the words small and/or relief:
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classesour ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“Fashion required the suppression of all naturalnessto walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handle formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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