Freeholders Quotes & Sayings

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society. — David Marusek

Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning. — Gail Tsukiyama

The idea that she simply wanted to help him damn near took the wind out of him. — Jenny Holiday

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it. — Milly Silver

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. — Wendell Phillips

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. — Georges Duhamel

This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident
like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation, right? — Paul Zindel

The world needs role models, instead of critics. — Denis Waitley

Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden, in his Address to the Freeholders in 1747, attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers unconcerned with the welfare of others (although he himself was wealthy) and spoke for the honesty and dependability of "the midling rank of mankind" in whom citizens could best trust "our liberty & Property." This was to become a critically important rhetorical device for the rule of the few, who would speak to the many of "our" liberty, "our" property, "our" country. — Howard Zinn

To practice Sabbath is a disciplined and faithful way to remember that you are not the one who keeps the world running, who provides for your family, not even the one who keeps your work projects moving forward. — Timothy Keller