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Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Release Date: June, 1993 [eBook #71]
[Most recently updated: January 18, 2018]
Language: English
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government
I heartily accept the motto,--"That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I
believe--"That government is best which governs not at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought agains…