[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
James Russell LowellMen! 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?
James Russell LowellThe true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell LowellDemocracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
James Russell Lowell