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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money 'merely' is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.. You must get your living by loving.
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    I believe,-"That government is best which governs not at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.
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  10. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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