Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
Source: Essays, History (First Series), 1841.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.