Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom's secret wilt thou know? Counsel not with flesh and blood; Loiter not for cloak or food; Right thou feelest, rush to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
