| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 19468 |
| QUOTATION: | Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Attributed.
Remark made referring to the criticism by Rufus Choate of the Declaration of Independence in a letter to the Maine Whig Central Committee, August 9, 1856: “Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.” Published in The Works of Rufus Choate with a Memoir of his Life, vol. 1, ed. S.G. Brown (1862). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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