Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Democracy

• Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Democracy, Vote, Oppression

• If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, War, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

• Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Historical, Democracy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press

• The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Government, Editors

• Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.413, Harvard University Press

• Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, School, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.397, Modern Library

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