Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)


All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their...

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their...

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their...

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their...