Monday, October 3, 2022

Freedom For Its Own Sake

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1843, February 8:

Democracy with us is charged with being malignant, and I think it aimless, selfish resistance, pulling down, and wild wish to have physical freedom,—but for what ? Only for freedom; not to any noble end.

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