81 Quotes by Phil Ochs

The painter paints his brushes blackThrough the canvas runs a crackPortrait of the pain never answers back.

Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your ownAnd you watch them build the war machine right beside your homeAnd you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the warI know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

In the state of Mississippi, Many Years Ago, a boy of 14 years got a taste of Southern law.

[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.