Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays: First Series, James Munroe and Company, 1841, p. 73.
Howe was as close a political advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt as any president had ever had. He had been with Roosevelt in his early political days and stayed with him even when Roosevelt’s polio appeared to have ended his political career. It was Howe who persuaded FDR and his friends and family that he could re-enter politics even with the polio. Few believed it was possible, but between Howe and FDR, they did what was perceived as the impossible. Presidential assistant Harry Hopkins picked up much of the slack and became even closer to FDR than Howe had been.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
