"...is the spirit of the people an..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.”

“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”

“Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.”

“The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.”

“Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.”

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.”

“The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?”

“Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”