Walt Whitman

“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion. Starting from Paumanok. 7”

“I will write the evangel”

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere”

“Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!”

“I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings. Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II”

“There was a kind of labor agitator here today”

“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”

“The Spanish Element in Our Nationality,”

“Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War”

“I have just this moment heard from the front”