This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man;…

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Government Quotes

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that...

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that...

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes...

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes...

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

We live but a fraction of our lives

$We live but a fraction of our lives$

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...

Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it...

Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it...

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is...

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of...