Quote:
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;—
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Categories: United States; democracy; freedom
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Boston,” Selected Poems (1876).
Read in 1873 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
