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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
If government knew...
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If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
Source: The Conduct of Life, Considerations by the Way, 1860.
-- 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.