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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it?"
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    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 not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know how much truth is stronger than errors, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.
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  10. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? 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.
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience

    The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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