Henry David Thoreau Quote

Quote from Henry David Thoreau,

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."

By:	Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)
	(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist
Categories:	Conviction, Dissent, Integrity, Peace, Revolution, Tax, Violence
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