6 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Society

James Russell Lowell quotes on society

13. Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

31. In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

59. I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em.

80. Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

88. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

101. I do not believe in violent changes, nor do I expect them. Things in possession have a very firm grip. One of the strongest cements of society is the conviction of mankind that the state of things into which they are born is a part of the order of the universe, as natural, let us say, as that the sun should go round the earth. It is a conviction that they will not surrender except on compulsion, and a wise society should look to it that this compulsion be not put upon them. For the individual man there is no radical cure, outside of human nature itself, for the evils to which human nature is heir.