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Quotes from significant and famous personalities and authorities are not just merely uttered strings of words. They are important and enlightening. Often they point at the aspects in the socio-cultural and political environment that they seek to redress, appraise or commend. Quotes are often meant to bring an insight on a specific issue. They may be inspirational at most times. This paper will analyze specific examples of quotes in terms of their significance and relationship to American Literature Tradition. Emerson on Self Reliance “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates into that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter …show more content…

Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced.” This particular quote explores an undemocratic government. The author explicitly strips the judicial system by portraying their mediocre way of handling justice. There have been tendencies where governments send people to prison without any justice. Thoreau was sent to prison for not paying taxes, he believed that he was innocent because paying taxes meant supporting and funding slavery and the Mexican- American war. The quote reveals an unfair system of justice that follows immoral procedures and portrays the systems tactic as a bully. The significance of this quote is that it attempts to realign the way the judicial system should operate by proposing that the system must not delve on the physical appearance but the character (Giles, p 134). Thoreau’s wise words reveal a human rights activist and a liberal person. American Literature is thus revealed as being a custodian of the law and an advocate of justice. The quote also portrays a picture of America as from late 1800s to 1960s when it was marred with racism and the black were often subjected to injustices and unfair …show more content…

. . Heer nature and liberty affords us that freely, which in England we want, or it costeth us dearly. What pleasure can be more, then (being tired with any occasion a-shore, in planting Vines, Fruits or Hearbs in contriving their owne Grounds, to the pleasure of their owne minds, their Fields, Gradens, Orchards, Buildings, and other works to recreate themselves before their owne doors, in their owne boates upon the sea; where man, woman an childe, with a small hook and line, by angling, may take diverse sorts of excellent fish, at their pleasure.” In this quote Smith is referring to the heavenly pleasures which “nature and liberty” afford freely in the Commonwealth, but come at a great cost in England. The significance of this quote comes out from an author who sees the Commonwealth as an abundant, beautiful paradise. John smith was a leader who believed in hard work and saw the commonwealth vast and rich land with lots of

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