Scott Nearing's Quotes

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Your government is no longer mine.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.