Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.