ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
like Orpo
cure of trees and beasts.
I do not ion. I do not wish
to split o make fine distinctions, or set myself up as
better ther, I may say, even an excuse
for conforming to t too ready to
conform to to suspect myself on this
ax-gatherer comes round, I find myself
disposed to revies and position of tate
conformity.
quot;e must affect our country as our parents,
And if at any time e
Our love or industry from doing it honor,
e must respect effects and teache soul
Matter of conscience and religion,
And not desire of rule or benefit.quot;
I believe t tate o take all my work
of t out of my ter a
patriot trymen. Seen from a lo of view,
titution, s faults, is very good; the
courts are very respectable; even tate and this American
government are, in many respects, very admirable and rare things,
to be t many
seen from a point of vietle I have
described till, and t, who shall
say t or thinking of
at all?
does not concern me much, and I shall
besto possible ts on it. It is not many moments
t I live under a government, even in this world. If a man is
t-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, t w never
for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers
cannot fatally interrupt him.
I kno most men tly from myself; but those
o tudy of t