“So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”
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in a speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007

“In the U. S. Army, you are cut down for being honest.”
Last e-mail to parents (2009)

“Too many for the fruit cut down the tree,
And find their gain in world-wide misery.”
Troppi taglian la pianta per i frutti,
E traggono lor pro dal mal di tutti.
Stornelli Politici, "Gaetano Semenza", II.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 428.
“I am not a big banyan tree; I am a less green bush, the more you cut, the more I grow”
Quoted in Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, "Poetic identity," http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/10/19/stories/2008101950080200.htmThe Hindu, India, 19 October 2008

Mark Simone Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5NAVwmXVUo (July 26, 2017)
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