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)

    “But the tender grace of a day that is dead
    Will never come back to me.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)