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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Authority

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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.211, Graphic Arts Books