Quotes from Thoreau’s “ Resistance to Civil Government ” or “Civil Disobedience” AP English Language and Composition English 11-2.

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Quotes from Thoreau’s “ Resistance to Civil Government ” or “Civil Disobedience” AP English Language and Composition English 11-2

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “That government is best which governs least.”“That government is best which governs least.” “That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”“That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.”“Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” It [the American government] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves; and, if ever they should use it in earnest as a real one against each other, it will surely split.”“It [the American government] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves; and, if ever they should use it in earnest as a real one against each other, it will surely split.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “…yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”“…yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it.”“For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long time continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.”“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long time continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?”“Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?” “Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to a legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?”“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to a legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think is right….”“I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think is right….”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting on another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.”“If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting on another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “Thus, under the name of order and civil government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin, comes indifference and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.”“Thus, under the name of order and civil government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin, comes indifference and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name – if ten honest men only – aye, if one HONEST man, in this state of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail, therefor, it would be abolition of slavery in America.” For it matters not how small the beginning seem to be : What is once well done is done forever…”“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name – if ten honest men only – aye, if one HONEST man, in this state of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail, therefor, it would be abolition of slavery in America.” For it matters not how small the beginning seem to be : What is once well done is done forever…”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”“I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. … I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax.”“I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. … I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “…for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog.”“…for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog.”

Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” “There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”“There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.”