We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. - James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

I have hinted that what people are afraid of in democracy is less the thing itself than what they conceive to be its necessary adjuncts and consequences. It is supposed to reduce all mankind to a dead level of mediocrity in character and culture, to vulgarize men's conceptions of life, and therefore their code of morals, manners, and conduct — to endanger the rights of property and possession. But I believe that the real gravamen of the charges lies in the habit it has of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the Powers that Be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be. If the powers that be are in a condition to give a satisfactory answer to this inevitable question, they need feel in no way discomfited by it.

I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.