Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me >>

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a sl >>

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. >>

Quotations about Government

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usual >>

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the go >>

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards. >>

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David