Contemplating Quote by Henry David Thoreau
“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
![“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c52/thomas-jefferson-43_truth_it-is-a-happy-truth-that-man-is-capable_434452.jpg)
