Henry David Thoreau Quote

Quote from Henry David Thoreau,

"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."

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
Source:	On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, 1849 (original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment)
Categories:	Civil Rights, Constitution, Government, Individual Rights, Power, Republic, Resistance
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