Citizens Quote by Walt Whitman

“It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.” quote by Walt Whitman — Download Open image

“It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.”

Walt Whitman

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

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“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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