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  • The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Land Quotes
  • [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes
  • The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Children Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Light Quotes , Land Quotes
  • Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes
  • In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Laozi Quotes , Heart Quotes , Land Quotes
  • Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Mean Quotes , Land Quotes