"I wear my hat as I please,..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
More by Walt Whitman
“There will never be any more perfection than there is now.”
“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”
“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
More on Individuality
“Most people are other people.”
“The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.”
“Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.”
More on Freedom
“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
“Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .”