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The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Jennings Bryan |

Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Cheever |

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Geronimo |