Henry David Thoreau Quote

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.