Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

- Utah Phillips

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns …

- Utah Phillips

They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least …

- Utah Phillips

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

- Utah Phillips

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought an…

- Utah Phillips

I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privileg…

- Utah Phillips

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

- Utah Phillips

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

- Utah Phillips

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you ass…

- Utah Phillips