[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.
John BurroughsI am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.
John BurroughsTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsNature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
John BurroughsCertainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.
John Burroughs