I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

More quotations from Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

More quotations tagged with “politicians”

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

—Nikita Khrushchev

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

—Douglas Adams

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

—Charles De Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

—Charles De Gaulle

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