Philosophical literature · Historical literatureWe may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPhilosophy of History · 1832★ 7.1
Speech · Political speechAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.Abraham Lincoln1838★ 7.0
Personal journalGod creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.Soren Kierkegaard1838★ 7.0
SpeechThis time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.Ralph Waldo Emerson1837★ 7.0
NewspaperOur country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.William Lloyd GarrisonThe Liberator · 1837★ 7.0
Personal journalCome out of your warm, angular house, resounding with few voices, into the chill, grand, instantaneous night, with such a Presence as a full moon in the clouds.Ralph Waldo Emerson1838★ 6.9
Political literatureWar is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.Karl Von ClausewitzOn War · 1833★ 6.8
The time will come when this universe and nature herself will be no more. And just as of very great human kingdoms and empires and of their marvelous exploits, which were so very famous in other ages, there remains no sign of fame whatsoever, so too of the entire world, and of the infinite vicissitudes and calamities of all created things, no single trace will remain, but a naked silence and a most profound quiet will fill the immensity of space. Thus, this stupendous and frightening mystery of universal existence, before it can be declared or understood, will vanish and be lost.Giacomo Leopardi1835★ 6.8
Philosophical literature · Historical literatureThe history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPhilosophy of History · 1832★ 6.3
Speech · Political speechEternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson's Farewell Address · 1837★ 6.3
NovelWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter · 1836★ 6.1
SpeechIf the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.Ralph Waldo EmersonThe American Scholar · 1837★ 5.4
Speech · Political speechThere are no necessary evils in the government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favor alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.Andrew Jackson1832★ 5.3
EssayMen grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.Ralph Waldo EmersonLiterary Ethics · 1838★ 5.3