"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Land, Nothing, Sea

"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

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"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."

Felix Marti-Ibanez, Spanish Physician

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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."

Alan Bennett, English Dramatist

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"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

Will Carleton, American Poet

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"By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana."

James Monroe, American President

Land, Limits, State

"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

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