The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.W.E.B. Du Bois1909★ 7.0
PoemWe need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.Rainer Maria Rilke1909★ 6.9
Autobiography and memoirAny customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.Henry Ford1909★ 3.6
Essay · Legal writingOur civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.G.K. ChestertonTremendous Trifles · 1909★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechThe negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.William Howard TaftInaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909★ 1.9
NovelAh, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!Andre Gide1909★ 1.8
Anti-colonial literatureIn reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.Mahatma Gandhi1909★ 1.3
Speech · Political speechThe thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed.William Howard TaftInaugural Address of William Howard Taft · 1909★ 1.0
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