“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity Ye princes, keep your realms And circumscribed power Not wide as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement. By the wary independence and aloofness of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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