Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson