INTA NGIBLES “Never forget, gentlemen, that you command Athenians and that those elements which make our countrymen great are intangible — daring and intelligence, adaptability and esprit. Put these in the bank for me and I will get you all the ships you need.” Tides of War , p. 260 [ha rdback] It’s okay to sing softly or to strike a note of languor or melancholy. But behind it, the stance must always be aggr essive.

Our land, like our character, cannot be the object of buying and selling.

Behind the buying and selling of earth is the hidden process of buying and selling a personality.

Earth is the great gift which nature gave to people, and the birth of every person in this world should give him the right to possess this earth.

And this right should be as natural as the right of a person to have the breast of his mother.

—JEAN FRANÇOIS MARMONTEL

A person in our society cannot sleep without paying for the place where he sleeps; he has the right to have free air or water or sunlight only when he is on the road.

The only right he has is to walk along this road; until he becomes tired, or he cannot walk, he has to continue walking.

The bodies of men and women, and even more importantly, their children, should not be bought and sold.

So too the water, the land and air, because these things are necessary conditions of this existence.

—JOHN RUSKIN

People strive in this world, not for those things which are truly good, but for the possession of many things which they can call their property.