"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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Government
― Henry David Thoreau
More From Henry David Thoreau
- "As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."
- "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
- "What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
More In Government
- "Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!"― Nafisa Joseph
- "If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don’t go along to get along; do your best and when you have to – and you will – leave, and be something else."― Peggy Noonan
- "Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy."― Nick Nolte