The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation... A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Chainbearer

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American expansion America

Author

James Fenimore Cooper

Source

The Chainbearer

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845, ch. 6.

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Another quote from the 1840s

It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Topic
Injustice Adversity

Author

Thomas Carlyle
Source
Chartism
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Another quote about America

I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how
beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

I, Too

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Topic
Black experience Race relations America

Author

Langston Hughes
Source
I, Too
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "I, Too." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, I. 1.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, epilogue.