Moral Political Philosophy
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau • Resistance to Civil Government and the Primacy of Conscience
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On the Primacy of Conscience
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
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Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
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