Party Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson