1837

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

1837

★ 7.0

Newspaper

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator · 1837

★ 7.0

Magazine

The best government is that which governs least.

John L. O'Sullivan

1837

★ 6.9

Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address · 1837

★ 6.3

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 5.4

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist · 1837

★ 4.0

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 3.7

These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

1837

★ 3.7

A woman's love for us increases The less we love her, sooth to say- She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases; Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Alexander Pushkin

1837

★ 3.6

Essay · Newspaper

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

1837

★ 3.6

We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

Mauprut · 1837

★ 3.6

Looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action.

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 3.6

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1837

★ 3.5

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 2.7

Character is higher than intellect.

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 2.1

Historical literature

Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History · 1837

★ 2.0

Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

Honore de Balzac

La Comedie humaine · 1837

★ 1.9

We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.9

The last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery.

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.9

Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 1.2

In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world.

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837

★ 1.2

The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come.