"There is but one stage for the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only. But taking a hint from the word, I would go a step further and say, that it is not the man of wealth and leisure simply, though devoted to art, or science, or literature, who, in a true sense, is liberally educated, but only the earnest and free man.”

“I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.”

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.”

“The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.”

“We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.”

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.”

“No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.”

“Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”

“"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."”