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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable. — Henry David Thoreau

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. — Sheldon Vanauken

This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will. — Henry David Thoreau

Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) — Anne Lamott

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished. — Sammy Cahn

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? — Henry David Thoreau

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

But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. — Henry David Thoreau

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? — Henry David Thoreau

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. — Henry David Thoreau

For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. — Henry David Thoreau

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned. — Henry David Thoreau

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone. — Henry David Thoreau

The civil service are risk averse. — Ken Livingstone

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government — Henry David Thoreau

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. — Henry David Thoreau

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine. — Henry David Thoreau

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf

That government is best that governs not at all. — Henry David Thoreau

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. — Henry David Thoreau

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last. — Henry David Thoreau

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. — Henry David Thoreau

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. — Henry David Thoreau