316 ETHICS AND MORALITY I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or […]
THOREAU: Civil Disobedience 315 rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects and obtains them for […]
320 ETHICS AND MORALITY they have not considered wisely how far they let their private feelings interfere with the public good. 38This, then, is my position […]
THOREAU: Civil Disobedience 321 and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people, to discover a pretext for conformity. We must […]
322 ETHICS AND MORALITY behind government and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform […]
THOREAU: Civil Disobedience 323 they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool gird up their loins once more and continue their […]