Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.


Essays and Poems of Emerson (ed. 1921)


Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.