"Since Benjamin Franklin’s eloquent bad-mouthing of the bird when the time came to select a national emblem, the Bald …"

"I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; …"

"Yet spirit immortal, the tomb can not bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from b…"

"And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them a…"

"... I fear that it cannot truthfully be asserted that eagles are absolutely harmless with regard to young lambs, , an…"

"The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby."

"Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, t…"

"He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The …"

"And thus among these rocks he lived, Through summer heat and winter snow: The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was l…"

"When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his s…"