 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tra* Published in ^Esthetic Papers, Boston, 1849. 21... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused I and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavouring to transmit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1892 - 304 páginas
...equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the preset Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 páginas
...".-»-.---•"; " } cute their will, is equally liable to. be. abused v and perverted T5efore the people can Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using 132 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | Waldo Ralph Browne - 1919 - 168 páginas
...execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively...the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government, — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit... | |
 | 1924 - 322 páginas
...abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war (1849), the work of comparatively a few individuals using...the people would not have consented to this measure. — Henry David Thoreau. A WORKINGMAN is not supposed •^ to ask anything more than a fair day's wage... | |
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The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the... 
