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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.
My own recipe for world peace is a little bit of land for everyone.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The read more
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the read more
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; read more
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is read more
Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from read more
All the territorial possessions of all the political
establishments in the earth--including America, of course--
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe,
howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies
a foot of land that was not stolen.
When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.