Every man paddle his own canoe.

Frederick Marryat

Settlers in Canada

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Topic

Thinking for oneself

Speaker

Anonymous First Nations chief

Author

Frederick Marryat

Source

Settlers in Canada

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Marryat, Frederick. The Settlers in Canada. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, ch. 8.

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Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Topic
Democracy

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 1, ch. 17.

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Cornel West

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Topic
Love as action Justice Political progress Progress
Speaker
Cornel West
Source
Big Think
Medium
Interview
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
2009 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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