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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #back #better #express #i

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #behold #curious #each #every

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#bad #best #god #good #i

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. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#battles #day #fall #gain #good

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#faults #forgiven #him #may #perfect

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#employment #following #hero #man #may

More Americans are working today than at any time in history. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#history #more #than #time #today

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn. ↗

— Sue Wicks

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