Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, >>

This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recen >>

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a f >>

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and th >>

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their inter >>

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Thoreau, Henry David