I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

A man can be a hero in any profession

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.