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• That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience
• That government is best which governs not at all.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Civil Disobedience" 1849...
• It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong
  he may still properly have other concerns to engage him...
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• I heartily accept the motto -- "That government is best which governs lea
  and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically....
• Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...