The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.


Essays, orations and lectures (ed. 1848)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if...

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if...

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if...

The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if...