#acres

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#battle #cause #consequences #defeat #defending

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#air #bound #breathe #care #content

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees. ↗

— Earl Warren

#legislatures #people #represent #trees

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#aside #down #economy #forests #gone

One time we did have 300 acres in watermelons. That was fun. ↗

— Delta Burke

#did #fun #one time #time

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. ↗

— Jack London

#add #beauty #belongs #book #estate

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#been #could #distance #ended #fallen

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#even #everyone #five #goodness #grapes

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#after #argument #as far as #commitment #day