Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations. Vol. 10, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914, p. 147.
The great poet was trying to get a job with the BBC and Nicholson was to be his boss.
She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
At the time, the traders were mostly French who traded all kinds of goods and especially alcohol—usually rum—for fur animal pelts. Many of the Indians were partial to the French and French oriented traders who did not covet their land and would provide the Indians with alcohol and guns, lead and powder while English traders sometimes tried to restrict these items. Many tribes of American Indians are genetically very susceptible to alcohol—both in terms of immediate impairment—getting drunk and in developing a dependency on having alcohol—addiction or alcoholism.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. The Congressmen who voted for Prohibition in the next century had not read or believed this quotation of Twain’s.
One of the commonalities between Lincoln and Washington were there experience in seeing alcohol cause the death and/or ruination of many. See {630833}.
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.
