The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.