Courtroom speech · SpeechYears ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.Eugene Debs1918★ 5.1
Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writingA word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Towne v. Eisner · 1918★ 4.3
NovelThere was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.Willa CatherMy Antonia · 1918★ 3.7
NovelThat is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.Willa CatherMy Antonia · 1918★ 3.7
NovelWinter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.Willa CatherMy Antonia · 1918★ 3.7
Speech · Political speechA general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.Woodrow Wilson1918★ 3.5
NewspaperThe power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress.Alfred Harmsworth1918★ 3.5
PoemPile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all.Carl Sandburg1918★ 3.5
EssayIf it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.Jean Cocteau1918★ 3.5
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.Douglas Haig1918★ 3.4
BiographyThe history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton StracheyEminent Victorians · 1918★ 2.5
NovelWhatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.Willa CatherMy Antonia · 1918★ 2.0
NewspaperTo announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.Theodore Roosevelt1918★ 1.9
Courtroom speech · SpeechWhen great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.Eugene Debs1918★ 1.9
PoemWhat would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.Gerard Manley Hopkins1918★ 1.8
Feminist literatureThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.H.L. Mencken1918★ 1.8
Speech · Political speechAt eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruelest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.David Lloyd George1918★ 1.7
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