Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the b >>

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you >>

Every hero becomes a bore at last. >>

Quotations about Country

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes -- the >>

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the co >>

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and >>

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo