Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
One of the claimed advantages to the American system of primaries and a long Presidential campaign, it to have enough time and pressure to have each candidate be observed when things are not going smoothly so that the American electorate can determine his character when under pressure if things are not doing well.
This description of the Civil War had been widely quoted in that it conveys the inevitability of hostilities between North and South over slavery. Hundreds of compromises, arguments, enticements, were made since the founding of the United State but none or all of them could prevent the conflict over such a basic fundamental as slavery. Note that he coined the term before the war actually took place. The conflict was raging politically, journalistically and culturally.
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.
