3 James Russell Lowell Quotes on America

James Russell Lowell quotes on america

12. 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.

81. It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

91. I hear America sometimes playfully accused of sending you all your storms, and am in the habit of parrying the charge by alleging that we are enabled to do this because, in virtue of our protective system, we can afford to make better bad weather than anybody else. And what wiser use could we make of it than to export it in return for the paupers which some European countries are good enough to send over to us who have not attained to the same skill in the manufacture of them?