The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Whoever degrades another degrades me.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.