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Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1849
Pages
Pages 20

A man explains why he went to jail rather than pay a tax to a government that runs on slavery and war, and argues that one honest conscience outvotes a majority.

That government is best which governs least.
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

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