Quotes by Walt Whitman

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.