In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour. — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living… — Fritz Todt Copy Share Image
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I refuse to be released on the basis of a 'condition for negotiations' and I will not accept the price for my… — Ahmad Sa'adat Copy Share Image
The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion,… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze) — Uri Orbach Copy Share Image
An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can… — Robert Gilman Copy Share Image
I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
