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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
We rail at...
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We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
Source: Journals, 1909-1914, entry for Jan 1844.
-- 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.