How did Ralph Waldo Emerson feel about this country, capitalism, and personal freedoms?

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ipod what? Facebook who? Have we forgotten history?)

For what avail the plow or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Give me liberty or give me death!)

The world belongs to the energetic.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (to those who work?)

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation
is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good,
no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his
toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (no free handouts? work=prosperity?)

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (what about the risk of failure?)

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (but what about redistribution of wealth?)

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (You mean I can't blame somebody else?)

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (You mean I am responsible for the outcome of my life?)

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.
Go forward and make your dreams come true.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (I thought the government would make my dreams come true, free everything?)

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Individual freedom is the only freedom!)

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Then how will we justify abandoning the constitution?)

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Work today? Prosperity tomorrow?)

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (The evolution of nations towards big government)

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (What about government promises?)

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (How dare you tell me I'm responsible for my misery!)