Henry David Thoreau Quote

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.


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


If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired...

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired...

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired...

If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired...