My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher
If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher
Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. – Andrew Fletcher
Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. – Andrew Fletcher
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009