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States Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning…
- As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
- Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters…
- Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it…
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
- Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
- I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know…
- My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts…
- The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
- What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything…
- There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in…
- There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from…
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing…
- When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express theiropinion on some subject which is vexing to…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur