Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - 1849 Return to Thoreau Reader While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, Civil Disobedience is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and occasionally visited, but for most of us there are not many occasions when it can actually be used. Still, though seldom mentioned without references to Gandhi and King, Civil ...

Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least ; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also 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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