Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.