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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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315 |
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AUTHOR:
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
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QUOTATION:
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Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics? Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused; when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “New England Reformers,” lecture read before the Church of the Disciples, Amory Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, March 3, 1844.—Essays: Second Series (vol. 3 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson), p. 272 (1903). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Conservatives |
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