A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality whi...ch are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no co...mpetition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The wors...e things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, and... have not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the di...ssector or the antiquary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constant...inople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »