"Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?"
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"Ah! never shall the land forget."
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"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil."
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"The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession."
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"Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?"
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"I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government."
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"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."
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"Nimble thought can jump both sea and land."
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"Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?"
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"Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day."
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"How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"
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"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive."
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"Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me."
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"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind."
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"As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me."
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"I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible."
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"libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands"
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"...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures."
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"It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally."
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"Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free."
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