Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men

When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.