Society and the World

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Blessed are the horny hands of toil!

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition.

Thou shalt not covet, but tradition Approves all forms of competition.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

A solitary sail that rises White in the blue mist on the foam— What is it in far lands it prizes? What does it leave behind at home?

Oh let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Oh let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

A man in armor is his armor’s slave.