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)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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...