Quote by Walt Whitman
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executi

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. – Walt Whitman

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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman

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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws. – Theodore Roosevelt

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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. – Pablo Picasso

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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