...of thought and action " ; and twelve years later he was telling himself that " The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." He asked for elbowroom because he never knew in advance in what direction he might have to expand :...

..."Do not be too moral; you may cheat yourself out of much life so ... All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story." "The only...should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice?" "There is a nearer neighbor within who is incessantly telling us how we should...

...not desirable to / > cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Spring (March 2, 1858) : There is no need of a law to check the license of the press. It is law enough...

...is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said, that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men...

...is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. RALPH WALDO EMERSON [1803-1882] Emerson carried the individualist idea far into the intellectual and...

...is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. . . There is no need of a law to check the license of the press. It is law enough and more than enough...

...benefit from philosophical inquiry— people like Crito. Remaining at the Station The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Henry David Thoreau (1989), 4 Readers of the Crito instinctively believe that the Socrates they encounter...

...true. Hence, the argument against civil disobedience from moral skepticism fails. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. . . . There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the...

...is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. . . Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have...

...seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. . . . the only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. A common and national result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel,...