Poor Children

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or children:

“The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children’s children who may perchance be really free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)