Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Liberty

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All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau

I Hate You, Independence, Liberty

Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.82, University of Georgia Press

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Courage, Law, Liberty

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Years, Liberty

Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Henry David Thoreau

Children, Men, Liberty

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.82, Penguin

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Liberty, Facts

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.325, Princeton University Press

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Henry David Thoreau

Government, Liberty, Libertarian

Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Liberty, World

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.64, BookBaby

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Henry David Thoreau

Government, Liberty, Authority

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books