There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.


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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
WALT WHITMAN
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity...
WALT DISNEY
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
WALT WHITMAN
I accept reality and dare not question it.
WALT WHITMAN
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you...
WALT DISNEY
Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.
WALT DISNEY
All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.
WALT DISNEY
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, may...
WALT DISNEY
I believe in being an innovator.
WALT DISNEY
Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forge...
WALT DISNEY
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
WALT DISNEY
If you can dream it, you can do it.
WALT DISNEY
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their ti...
WALT WHITMAN
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
WALT WHITMAN
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it wa...
WALT WEST
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
WALT WHITMAN
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range ...
WALT WHITMAN
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divi...
WALT WHITMAN
Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying ...
WALT WHITMAN
The butcher in his killing clothes.
WALT WHITMAN
On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up throu...
WALT WHITMAN
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
WALT WHITMAN
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, wh...
WALT WHITMAN
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN
In the faces of men and women I see God.
WALT WHITMAN
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an...
WALT WHITMAN
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with ...
WALT WHITMAN
The real war will never get in the books.
WALT WHITMAN
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
WALT WHITMAN
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat a...
WALT WHITMAN
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
WALT WHITMAN
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
WALT WHITMAN
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
WALT WHITMAN
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for th...
WALT WHITMAN