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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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – 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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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. – Josh Billings

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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau

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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. – Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Toleration is the best religion. – Victor Hugo

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. – Colin Powell

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