West England Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words west, england and/or franchise:

    “O native country, repossessed by thee!
    For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
    I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
    Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
    Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    “Why should I go to England with her? Because you bid me, or because she wishes it,—or simply because England is the most damnable, Puritanical, God-forgotten, and stupid country on the face of the globe?”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    “...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but rather intellectual biologists and psychologists.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)