Henry David Thoreau Quote

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.


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


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...

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...

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...

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...