Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every >>

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. >>

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequa >>

Quotations about Patriotism

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of a >>

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. >>

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. >>

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Thoreau, Henry David