Never pass up a chance to sit down or relieve yourself. -old Apache saying

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Quoth Baker Creek

More memorable fragments from the Baker Creek gang.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
-Dan Quayle

One who plants a garden, plants happiness.
-Chinese proverb

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.
-Willie Nelson

Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
-Mahatma Gandhi

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
-James Madison

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
-George W. Bush

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Force always attracts men of low morality.
-Albert Einstein

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Benjamin Franklin

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
-Thomas Jefferson

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
-George W. Bush

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