“Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.” PeopleTryingRealFoundNationsLibertyVirtueLandPoliticianSceneAnd LoveResponsibleWorkersCorruptionBonesThese DaysLaborers Author:Andrew Jackson
“I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.” IfsKnowsWonderAirLandPoliticianCampaigns Book:Broken Vessels: Essays Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.” ThinkingSometimesFeelingsLandPoliticianUnderestimateTrue Feelings Author:Mo Udall
“Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.” PeopleWorldGivingWritingAbleGrowsPoorClearLandCarCrimePlanetsPoliticianGiving UpRainWeakNotesSpeciesDareOilBe GoodBillionsDrivingForestsFuelSatirePalmsCropsVanishingCarbohydratesBiofuelsHydrocarbonsHeinous CrimesPalm Oil Author:Matt Ridley
“Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into Jordan or out into other Arab lands, with the idea that there would be no intermixing of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis or Palestinian and Jewish communities. But the idea of an absolute segregation is one that I find lamentable.” IdeasWould BeCommunityLandPoliticianAbsolutesIsraelTerritoryPalestinianSegregationIsraeliTransfersJordanJewish Community Author:Judith Butler
“We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.” WayKindMadeCharacterCrazyLandHairTrumpPoliticianBlowLondonRidiculousSecretaryJohnsonBlondeMayorsBlonde Hair Author:Charlie Brooker
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” IfsInspirationalWarReligionFightingFearFreedomLibertyEnemyLandPoliticianHistoricalLibertarianTyrannyOppressionAnti WarAntiwarPatriotFoundingOur Founding FathersPeace WarLimited GovernmentDemocracies HaveGreat WarTotal WarUs Founding FathersForefathersGuisePolice StateLimiting GovernmentFounding Fathers Anti ReligionRevolutionary WarGreat LibertarianTyranny Founding FathersPolitical OppressionFighting TerrorismSecurity And Liberty Author:James Madison
“Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.” RealNaturalAttitudeSacrificeAirSeaLandPossibilityPlanetsPoliticianResourcesExploitsNatural ResourcesDevastationLand And Sea Author:Viggo Mortensen