Henry David Thoreau Government Quotes & Sayings


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Suggest Revision: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
 
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Suggest Revision: It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
 
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 Henry David Thoreau quotes 
Suggest Revision: How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
 
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Suggest Revision: That government is best which governs least.
 
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Suggest Revision: Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
 
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Suggest Revision: That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
 
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Suggest Revision: Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
 
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Suggest Revision: Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
 
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 Henry David Thoreau quotes 
Suggest Revision: The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
 
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Suggest Revision: The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
 
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