Federal Safety Net

Famous quotes containing the words federal, safety and/or net:

    “The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “To emancipate [the slaves] entirely throughout the Union cannot, I conceive, be thought of, consistently with the safety of the country.”
    —Frances Trollope (1780–1863)

    “Here’s a fish hangs in the net like a poor man’s right in the law; ‘twill hardly come out.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)