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The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.6

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 8.7

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 8.2

Speech

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1848

★ 5.4

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 4.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 4.0

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 3.9

Personal journal

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

1848

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1848

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

Abraham Lincoln

1848

★ 3.7

Poem

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

The Vision of Sir Launful · 1848

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1848

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.

Henry John Temple

1848

★ 3.5

Poem

I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare

1848

★ 3.5

Essay · Political literature

I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least";... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,—"That government is best which governs not at all."

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 2.1

Essay · Political literature

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... The only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 2.1

Letter

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

1848

★ 2.0

Hymn · Song

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

All Things Bright and Beautiful · 1848

★ 2.0

Novel

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair · 1848

★ 2.0

Economic literature · Political literature

No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.

John Stuart Mill

1848

★ 1.9

Historical literature

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

1848

★ 1.9

Speech

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1848

★ 1.9

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

Elizabeth Fry

1848

★ 1.9

Poem

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

James Russell Lowell

A Fable of Critics · 1848

★ 1.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 1.3

Essay · Political literature

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848

★ 1.3

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

1848

★ 1.1