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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Memorable

You can sometimes find good quotes in the oddest places...but in a seed catalog?

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
-Abraham Lincoln

Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
-Luther Burbank

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselve responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...
-Benjamin Franklin

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
-Albert Einstein

Wisdom is better than weapons of war...
-Ecclesiastes 9:18

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
-John Quincy Adams

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-John F. Kennedy

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
-Helen Keller

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
-Benjamin Franklin

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver

I let no man drag me so low as to make me hate him.
-Booker T. Washington

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
-Thomas Jefferson

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
-Mahatma Gandhi

We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second is by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.
-Benjamin Franklin

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