American government Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

Henry David Thoreau

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“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…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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