Quotes about la
law southern maintenance
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state. William H. Seward
law would-be answers
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
law justice liberty
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.
latin america economy
The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. William Hague
law guilty headlines
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
landscape void form
All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like. William Hazlitt
lasts titles volume
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
lasts causes heroism
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
landscape painting misanthropy
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
laughter feelings mind
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.
laughing weakness comedy
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
lasts life-is pleasure
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
law innocence knows
Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. William Davenant
law easier harder
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. William E. Gladstone
law justice fairness
Justice delayed is justice denied.
land waiting forgotten
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. Wendell Johnson
labels t-shirt farming
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt. Wendell Berry
land limits use
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
land fertility maintenance
The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.
land people connections
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
land agriculture statistics
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Wendell Phillips
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
laughter laughing facts
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
land body
Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
land emergencies sound
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
land abuse ignorant
But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.
land government healthy
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
land people want
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve as little labor as possible. And so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.
land people community
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.
laughter joyful
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
land voice people
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
land flags environment
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.