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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Real, War
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Mean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Peace, War

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weed, War, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Men, Brain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Men, Saving Private Ryan
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Men, Epidemics
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Civilization, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.443, Harvard University Press

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Imagination, Soldier
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.732, Harvard University Press

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Personal Qualities, Giving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Works: English traits, Conduct of life”

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Lying, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom, War, Democracy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, War, Corn

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Book, Inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Causes, Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2762, Delphi Classics

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, War, Gambling
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.367

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Doctrine, Decline
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1890*). “The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson...”

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Order, Rotten
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Prayer, War
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.560, Library of America

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, Regret, War
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Government, Editors

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong, War, Adversity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Hands, Bayonets
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1919). “The Conduct of Life: Nature and Other Essays”

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