Quote on America by Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or
legislatures,nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or
parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the
common people.

This quote touches me.

Comments

[Daniel Miessler]

It touches me, too -- in my depression. If our common people are our hope today, I fear we are in serious peril. To me our only hope is to make our common people uncommon, meaning to make them extraordinary.