When I was writing pretty poor poetry this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

The planter the farmer the mechanic and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

He that is good will infallibly become better and he that is bad will as certainly become worse, for vice virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

You better take care of me Lord if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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