Legal Tender Act

Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or act:

    “In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
    —Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
    Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?””
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.
    Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
    To make dreams truths and fables histories;
    Enter these arms, for since thou thought’st it best
    Not to dream all my dream, let’s act the rest.”
    —John Donne (1572–1631)