Van Buren State

Famous quotes containing the words van buren, van, buren and/or state:

    Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
    —Abigail Van Buren (b. 1916)

    I please
    To plant some more dew-wet anemones
    That they may weep.
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
    —Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)

    He was discontented and wasted his life into the bargain; and yet he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)