terrain quotes

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

- Roy Broadbent Fuller
  'Translation'.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of  World War I. Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

- Peggy Noonan
  What I Saw at the Revolution.