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“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Thornton Wilder
“My belief has always been . . . that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government -- at point of bayonet if necessary -- to restore that individual's constitutional rights.”
Ronald Reagan
“In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined”
Mark Twain
“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“The whole world is my native land”
Seneca
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot
“Ours is the "land of the free" nobody denies that nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)”
“I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”
George Bernard Shaw
“But in here in this graveyard that is still no man's land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man To a whole generation that was butchered and damned”
Eric Bogle
“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”
Cecil Rhodes
