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
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 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
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyThe deed is all, the glory nothing.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust · 1832★ 4.0
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.Jeremy Bentham1832★ 3.6
PoemThe melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.William Cullen BryantThe Death of the Flowers · 1832★ 3.5
Song · Great American songbook · Patriotic songsMy country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From ev'ry mountain-side Let freedom ring.Samuel Francis SmithAmerica (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) · 1832★ 3.5
Essay · Political literaturePublicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.Jeremy Bentham1832★ 1.9
Political literatureNatural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense,—nonsense upon stilts.Jeremy Bentham1832★ 1.9
Essay · Political literatureAs to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.Jeremy Bentham1832★ 1.9
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingThe Cherokee nation...is a distinct community, occupying its own territory...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.John MarshallWorcester v. Georgia · 1832★ 1.9
Economic literatureImprovements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility.Charles Babbage1832★ 1.8
NewspaperFrom a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion, that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.William Cobbett1832★ 1.8
I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1832★ 1.2
PoemSelf-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Alfred TennysonPoems · 1832★ 1.1
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