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“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”

Littles Used Fire Towns Safety Complexes Corners Used To Be Stations County Around The Corner Massachusetts Hampshire Little Towns Public Safety

Author:Rachel Maddow

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

States Government Middle Relation Towns Western Active Locals County Colony Local Government Forerunners

Author:Albert Bushnell Hart

“I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.”

Littles Country Born Grew Grew Up Towns Seats Farms Small Town County Illinois

Author:June Squibb

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.”

Men Hard States Cities Towns Financial Debt Every Man Corporations Hard Times Village Ruined County Debtors Debt Free

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.”

“My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.”

People Home Enjoy Love Is Watches Towns Beach Great Love County Harbour Our Town Cornwall

Author:John Dyer

“The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.”

“The counties with the highest per capita income aren't near New York City or Los Angeles - they're in the Washington, D.C. area - a one-company town where the company is the government. The three counties with the highest incomes in the entire country are all suburbs of Washington. Eleven of the 25 counties with the highest incomes are near Washington.”

Country Government Three Cities Company New York Highest Areas Towns Income Los Angeles New York City Eleven County Suburbs

Author:Ann Coulter

“Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.”

Care Mother Father Left Childhood Grew Grew Up Towns Solitary Grandparent Small Town Infant County

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .”

Cities Drug Towns Small Town County Suburbs Epidemics Ohio

Author:Mike DeWine

“I'm from rural Oregon, Yamhill County, a farm four miles out of a town of 1,000 people and that town is overwhelmingly pro-Trump.”

People Four Trump Towns Miles Farms County Oregon

Author:Tucker Carlson

“I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.”

People Might Fighting Winning Lost Chance Fairs Towns Fishes Halls Small Town County Demographics Iowa

Author:Barack Obama

“There was this judgmental sense of what was good and what was bad in my father's words. You couldn't necessarily shut the people out who were not considered good. But on the other hand, as children we were told, you don't do those things, which means that you don't really mix with that crowd as much. You don't go to town on Saturday night and hang out and go to the beer parlors. Even though it was a dry county, there was plenty of moonshine and beer and liquor being brought in from other counties.”

People Mean Children Hands Night Father Towns Crowds Plenty Beer Dry Hanging Out Saturday County Liquor Judgmental Saturday Night Parlor Moonshine

Author:David C. Driskell

“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country”

Should Country States Government United United States Should Have Theater Towns Civilized Federal Government County

Author:Tony Randall

“Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.”

Problem Social Church Four Trouble Pages Towns Bars County Thirteen Arizona Social Problems Shitheads

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness