Poor Law Bill

Famous quotes containing the words poor, law and/or bill:

    “Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “It is my belief that there are “absolutes” in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be “absolute.””
    —Hugo Black (b. 1922)