Famous quotes containing the words bit and/or slave:
“University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you dont want to be thought incapable.”
—Peter, Sir Imbert (b. 1933)
“Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave case. Judge Harrington declared that the owners claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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