Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.


Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed (ed. 1911)


Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness,...

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness,...

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness,...

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness,...