Alternatives Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave…

— Henry David Thoreau

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

— Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority;…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong;…

— Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do…

— Henry David Thoreau

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you…

— Henry David Thoreau

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

— Henry David Thoreau

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one…

— Henry David Thoreau