What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.


Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861 (ed. 1906)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used...

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used...

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used...

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used...