Major Land Reform

Famous quotes containing the words major, land and/or reform:

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)