George Flower Quotes

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

The subject of human rights in China is one which I have discussed on numerous occasions in the United States. In fact, I've talked so much about it, that I practically have blisters on my mouth. Human rights in China have been improving from one day to the next, and I think it's fair to say that the degree of human rights now being enjoyed by the Chinese people is unprecedented in China's history. We acknowledge that we still have shortcomings, and these shortcomings are ones which we are still working hard to address

No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation. Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.

It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door … and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.

After 23 years closeted at Westminster, where often all you can see out of the windows are other parliamentary buildings, I appreciate space, and I retired to Dartmoor to find it.

A lot of things drew me to Texas. One is the wilderness: It's pretty close to wide open spaces, which I didn't grow up around and I love. You don't have to have a lot of money to have a view: The view is the sky, and it's everywhere.

I love London, but I miss air; I miss space. My dream is to find a mountain where I can live.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

My experience and what scant understanding of politics I possess have convinced me that our peoples will only find well-being under compulsion; but my repugnance for compulsion is so great that I am loath to employ it even to achieve their well-being.

In another century all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves is to disunite us.

I would hope to glorify freedom and liberty over there [America] in the hope that it may be regained over here [France.]

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

Liberty... is the great parent of science

[Reporting on America:] It's progressive growth ... before the century has elapsed will have changed the ... colonial system of the universe and the relative position of all civilized society.

Israel and America are the only two grievances which may be freely expressed in Arab counties.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.