Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTake the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImmortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOn the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson