Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”
—Adlai Stevenson (19001965)
“Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)