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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government has come...
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
Source: Letter, 7 Oct 1835.
-- 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.