Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Revolutions do not go backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Poet & Essayist, War
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Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Vladimir Lenin. In 1957 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used the first sentence of this quotation in a speech to the Supreme Soviet. See {240121}. He did not say that he was quoting Lenin, but many of the delegates probably knew this.
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.
