It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.


Wendell L. Willkie

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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY
To me, that's not enough punishment. But what I want most from him is an apology.
WENDELL TACKETT
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
WENDELL BERRY
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progr...
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Responsibility educates
WENDELL PHILLIPS
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
WENDELL BERRY
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY
It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES
What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD
With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY
I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY
Revolutions are not made. They come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stak...
WENDELL PHILLIPS
The keener the want the lustier the growth
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES
When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY
Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY
No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY
...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY
We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY
Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY
We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY
Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
WENDELL BERRY
He came back, but I thought he was a little out of sync early. Late, he was attacking the basket (la...
WENDELL JEFFRIES
Warren is a Division 1 player. There's many levels of Division 1 play. He really gets after people o...
WENDELL BYRD