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Liberty Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
- Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such…
- The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
- Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of…
- If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so…
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- That government is best which governs least.
- How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
- All good things are wild and free.
- Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me…
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