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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
Government
Country
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey
Day
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey
End
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
Growth
Cancer
Ideology
Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey
Men
Leaders
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
Clouds
Leading
May
Mountains
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Flowers
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
Edward Abbey
Government
Country
Insult
Poor
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey
Power
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Edward Abbey
Coffee
Culture
First
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Edward Abbey
Teamwork
Dumb
Man
Pretty
Stupidity
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Edward Abbey
Conservative
Evil
Hell
Old
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey
Imagination
Belief
Failure
Supernatural