Humble Petition

Famous quotes containing the words humble and/or petition:

“Ourself will mingle with society
And play the humble host.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Clay answered the petition by declaring that while he looked on the institution of slavery as an evil, it was ‘nothing in comparison with the far greater evil which would inevitably flow from a sudden and indiscriminate emancipation.’”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)