Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
A good deal of our politics is physiological.
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful