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When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Henry David Thoreau
Volunteer, Community, Brave
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Community, Would Be
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

Henry David Thoreau
Night, Long, Community
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Hunting, Community
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.154, Xist Publishing

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Community, Pay
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Community, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

Henry David Thoreau
Army, Should Have, Community
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.123, Trajectory Inc

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Office, Community
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Community, Police
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.414, Yale University Press

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