"All one needs to do is declare..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.”

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”

“Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!”

“Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.”

“Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.”

“We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.”

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.”

“It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”