What Ralph Waldo Emerson thinks about libertarianism

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American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882); began his career as a Unitarian minister in Boston; author of essays including Self-Reliance, History, The Over-Soul and Fate.

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1. c. 1841–1847

   Our readingSociety works against the independence of each of its members

   Their wordsSociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.

   ↗Essays, First Series (1841)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book