Democratic Vistas

"A single new thought...fit for the time, put in shape by some great literatus...[may cause change] greater than the longest and bloodiest war."

"We shall...find the origin-idea of the singleness of man, individualism, asserting itself, and cropping forth, even from the opposite ideas."

"Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training-school for making first-class men."

"America, and with some definite instinct why and for what she has arisen...is, now and here, with wonderful step, journeying through Time."

"The founders have pass'd to other spheres—but what are these terrible duties they have left us?"

"Unwieldy and immense, who shall hold in behemoth? who bridle leviathan?"