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“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.”

Ifs Littles Bits Land Danger Fine Thousand Ocean Little Bit Beats Storm Miles Handle Boat Upset Hitting Sailing Thousand Miles

Author:John Moffitt

“The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.”

Has Beens Law Poor Tree Land Danger Despair Fruit Bitter Code Poison Length Fabulous Dilemma Bud Depravity

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?”

Knows War Fighting Watches Land Danger Ready Machines

Author:Phil Ochs

“Kuwait has been a safeguard for who remained inside her, unaffected from the dangers that surround them, loyal to this land, and loving her soil, and believing the justice of her cause.. Also, Kuwait was the hope for the ones outside, where they continued to strive by gathering all the forces for her right, without these two wings, the state would have been another state.”

Believe Has Beens Two States Force Causes Justice Land Danger Wings Strive Soil Surround Loyal Gathering Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.”

“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.”

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do. And if even those who are in danger can raise their lonely voices, isn't it more that is required of all of us, in this land where liberty had her birth? In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth through power.”

Ifs Believe May Stills America Values Speak I Believe Voice Liberty Land Danger Birth Lonely Raises Dare Things To Do Patriot Noticing Speak The Truth

Author:Teresa Heinz

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My country never wrong" is an even more dangerous maxim than "My country, right or wrong."”

World Country Quality Land Dangerous Danger Native Maxims Intoxication Native Land

Author:Bertrand Russell

“In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.”

Persons Reason Certain Evil Nations Causes Religious Prayer Liberty Millions Land Danger Believer Welcome Allies Almighty Strain Symphony Religious Freedom Countrymen

Author:Mitt Romney

“Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.”

Would Be Faces Spiritual Forget Lord Land Danger Promise Adversity Prosperity Satisfaction Entering Moses Lethargy

Author:Max Anders

“Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.”

Men Mean Water Risk Land Rocks Danger Wind Ships Boards Thieves Rats Peril Sailor Pirate

Book:Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

Source: Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.”