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“Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.”

Home Nations Risk Built Workers Profit Seeking Accepted Pursuit Expenses Pioneers American Workers Offshore

Author:Ted Strickland

“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.”

“Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.”

Firsts Home Social Wise Duty Capacity Increase Seeking Accomplish Stewards

Author:Eliza R. Snow

“The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.”

Men States Home Government Nations United United States Proud Seeking Bread Welcome Good Man State Government United States Government

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”

World Way Self Home Natural Worst Produce Instinct Affection Seeking Manners Outcomes Self Respect Politeness Suppression Natural Instinct

Author:Humphry Davy

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