“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.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It’s the system that functions in the pinches that survives.”
— John F. Kennedy Primary sourceSurvival Politics Justice Independence Freedom