"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."

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Source : Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

Charles Dudley Warner

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?”

Source : "Song: "There There My Dear" ("Searching for the Young Soul Rebels")". 1980.
“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”
“We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.”
“For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.”
“Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.”
“Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.”
“I have some anger issues.”
“Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”

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