Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with h >>

City life is millions of people being lonesome together. >>

The sun is but a morning star. >>

Quotations about Army and Navy

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because the >>

History shows that there are no invincible armies. >>

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's >>

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

Thoreau, Henry David