1st Baron Howard of Penrith

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or howard:

    “Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
    —John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902)

    “Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)