TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Peace is always beautiful.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems