Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Army

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Respect, Army, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Navy, Nations

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.22, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Men, Cities

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Рипол Классик

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Men, Sailing

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Way, Firsts

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.432, Modern Library

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Cities, Government

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Army, Giving, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Harvard University Press