A Quote by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Anybody Ever Starve Town Vermont

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American - Author
February 17, 1879 - November 9, 1958

Vermont is such a small state, and the most money that's ever been spent in the history of political campaigns there is $2 million. That number is going to be surpassed many times. Vermont remains a "cheap state" for the Republican National Committee. So putting $5 or $10 million into Vermont - compared to New York or California or Illinois - that's small potatoes.

Bernie Sanders

I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate New York. They're quite alike in many ways. And quite wonderful. It's important that even in an urbanized and suburbanized country, we continue to take rural America seriously. And the thing that makes Vermont in particular so special, and I hope this book captures some of it, is the basic underlying civility of its political life. That's rooted in the town meeting. Each of the towns in Vermont governs itself.

Bill McKibben

Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.

Bernie Sanders

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

Annie Baker

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

Frank Lautenberg

My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.

Zephyr Teachout

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Richard Bach

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

Laozi

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.