Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.