I Keep Working Because I Am Quite

Philosophy And The Arts Are But A Manifestation Of The Intelligible Ideas That Move The Public Mind; And Thus They Become Visible Images Of The Nations Whence They Emanate.

Our Republican Ideas Cannot Be Consistently Carried Out While Women Are Excluded From Any Share In The Government. ... Any Class Of Human Beings To Whom A Position Of Perpetual Subordination Is Assigned, However Much They May Be Petted And Flattered, Must Inevitably Be Dwarfed, Morally And Intellectually.

The United States Is A Warning Rather Than An Example To The World.

That Man's Best Works Should Be Such Bungling Imitations Of Nature's Infinite Perfection, Matters Not Much; But That He Should Make Himself An Imitation, This Is The Fact Which Nature Moans Over, And Deprecates Beseechingly. Be Spontaneous, Be Truthful, Be Free, And Thus Be Individuals! Is The Song She Sings Through Warbling Birds, And Whispering Pines, And Roaring Waves, And Screeching Winds.

They [slaves] Have Stabbed Themselves For Freedom-jumped Into The Waves For Freedom-starved For Freedom-fought Like Very Tigers For Freedom! But They Have Been Hung, And Burned, And Shot-and Their Tyrants Have Been Their Historians!