1857 · Skopia

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1857

★ 7.3

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

1857

★ 7.0

Letter

See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 7.0

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1857

★ 5.4

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

Roger B. Taney

Dred Scott v. Sandford · 1857

★ 5.4

Novel

We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1857

★ 4.7

Short story · Magazine

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

George Eliot

1857

★ 3.8

Magazine

Man has his will,—but woman has her way!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is It · 1857

★ 3.7

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause · 1857

★ 3.6

Novel

Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1857

★ 2.9

Letter

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example in the extension of civil and religious liberty throughout the world.

James Buchanan

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States themselves wherein it exists.

James Buchanan

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

No more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise, economical, and efficient administration of the Government.

James Buchanan

1857

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

The Federal Constitution is a grant from the States to Congress of certain specific powers, and the question whether this grant should be liberally or strictly construed has more or less divided political parties from the beginning.

James Buchanan

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

We ought to cherish a sacred regard for the independence of all nations, and never attempt to interfere in the domestic concerns of any unless this shall be imperatively required by the great law of self-preservation.

James Buchanan

Inaugural Address of James Buchanan · 1857

★ 1.1

Letter

The costume of woman... Should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness... While it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

1857

★ 1.0