Patriotism Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 Patriotism quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve reflections on patriotism carry his signature transcendental tone, blending individual spirit with communal duty. Though brief, the excerpts capture his philosophical depth on the subject.

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America is a country of young men.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of…

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The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the…

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its…

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,…

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes…

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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will…

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“But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests, — a country where knowledge cannot be diffused…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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