Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry George

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Henry George

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

Henry George

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

Henry George

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

Heather Wilson

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Malcolm X

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

Malcolm X

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Malcolm X

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality....

Mahatma Gandhi

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

John Adams

We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

John Adams

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

This is only the first step. Before we can land on the moon, we have to go around it,

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

This is a landmark day for Washington Mutual and for our industry,

Eric Holder

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Forests are the lungs of our land......

George Gilder

But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

Jon Ronson

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Johnny Carson

Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

John Boyle O'Reilly

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

We searched air, land and water until 1 a.m., then started back at 7 a.m..

Jakob Nielsen

You don't just want to just shoot them off into e-mail land.

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

Pattie Boyd

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Their land would become more valuable with time.

Their land is their retirement plan. We don't want to pigeon-hole someone.

It's a much wider privilege in a media landscape that has changed.

Stephen King

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Randy Alcorn

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.