Famous quotes containing the words pension, protection and/or act:
““Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list ‘cos his mother’s uncle’s vife’s grandfather vunce lit the king’s pipe vith a portable tinder-box.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
In thy most need to go by thy side.”
—Anonymous. Knowledge, in Everyman, act 1, l. 522 (c. 1509-1519)