...at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standj ing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought...

...at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient ; but most...and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow, — one who may be known by the development of his organ...

...at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice. . . . We should be...

...Thoreau prefigured the subsequent Marxian critique of the American oligarchy's conquest of Mexico: "The objections which have been brought against a...standing army is only an arm of the standing government. . . . Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing...

...sloe les," set. 1 8. Themistocles was alleging that his son was the most powerful man in Greece. 48 m us. SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902). English HENRY DAVID THOREAU (181 7-62), US philosopher, author. naturalist. Leller, 31 July 1849, to Ellen...

...at all;" and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience, first paragraph, Walden and Civil Disobedience, ed. Owen Thomas,...

...have. Government is at bert but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governmenls are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought againsl a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government...

...Government" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 357, Houghton Mifflin (1906). Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments...usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. "Civil Disobedience," originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), in The Writings...

...of the individual to be responsible for his intellectual and moral integrity." Government [he wrote] is at best but an expedient; but most governments...at last be brought against a standing government. . . . After all, the practical reason why ... a majority are permitted ... to rule is not because they...

...necessary temporarily, it is nevertheless more likely that government will act unjustly than for the good: "The objections which have been brought against a...be brought against a standing government. . . . The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally...