Land Quotes - Page 39

• So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Opportunity, Long, Political

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, p.35, Now and Then Reader LLC

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• Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Degrees, Development, West

  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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• To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
  g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

  Margaret Sanger

  Giving, Choices, Taught

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• God doth not need
  Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best
  Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
  Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,
  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
  They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Ocean, Men, Waiting

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

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• When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Empty, Over It

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.52, Anchor

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• The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.

  Sebastian Barry

  Regret, Struggle, Animal

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

  Pericles

  Hero, Heart, Records

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Expression, Racism, Hatred

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

  George H. W. Bush

  Iraq, Invasion, United States

  "A World Transformed". Book by George H. W. Bush, September 14, 1998.

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• The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression.

  Mohammad Khatami

  People, Hardship, Bears

  " Israelis to lift travel restrictions in Jericho", www.cnn.com. April 24, 2001.

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• No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Thinking, Names, Giving

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Today, Forests

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", February 18, 1994.

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• No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Country, Writing, Simple

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

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• THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Dust, Hands

  'This dust was once the man'

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• What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

  Michael Moorcock

  Names, Usual, Principles

  "New Worlds (No. 4)". Science fiction anthology edited by David S. Garnett with afterword by‎ Michael Moorcock, 1994.

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• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

  Leon Krier

  Spiritual, Reality, Cities

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.90, Papadakis Publisher

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• Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

  Leon Krier

  Distance, Light, Cities

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.75, Island Press

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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Air, Blood, Years

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• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  William Graham Sumner

  Foundation, United States, Gains

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

  William Graham Sumner

  Growing Up, Foundation, Pioneers

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

  William Graham Sumner

  Race, Earth, Said

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, White Man, Attempting

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

  Terrence Malick

  War, Heart, Sea

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Flags, Pieces

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• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  Abdul Kalam

  Culture, Way

  "Eternal quest: life & times of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam" by S. Chandra, 2002.

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