"The antidote to this abuse of formal..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.”

“There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.”

“A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.”

“And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.”

“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

“Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.”

“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”

“The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.”

“I know that Congress will do the right thing.”