...monarchical idea, was also relatively right, (p. 563) These words culminate in the stern reminder that "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well" (p. 563). Corruption, however, does not prevent Emerson from being magnanimous to political parties...

...the supremacy of the state will be remembered for the sufferings their delusions cause their people. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey...severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?44 Both the president and...

...Wrightian hearth (Wisconsin Historical Society, "A Peculiar Establishment" Life at Taliesin, 1911-1914 Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every house is a missionary. I don't build a house without predicting the end of...

...judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence with the...corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. 119 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which...

...Freeman is always reminding one of Emerson. For example, this seems to be precisely your point of view: Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey...severity of censure conveyed in the word 'politic,' which now for ages has signified 'cunning" — intimating that the State is a trick? Or this: Senators and...

...personal importance" (J. VI, 495). Then should its laws be sacred and implicitly followed? By no means! "Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. . . . Any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable" (III, 199, 205). And not only...