- Résistance au gouvernement, Resistance to Government, Désobéissance civile, [document]
Written with the motto "that government is best that governs least", when men are ready for it, that will be the kind of government we will have. This book tries to tell us to think for ourselves. This is a Must Read for anyone anti-government. Please note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This e-Book is printable.
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Contemplative, character-led, spare and grave.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- A J Muste Memorial Inst, Peace Pledge Union, Regnery
- Editions
- 261
- Language
- French, English, Portuguese, yid
- ISBN
- 9781096952435
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“I HEARTILY accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least;" and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.”
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmen
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