Civil Disobedience
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it wasn’t what I expected to receive with the English to Spanish stuff in it
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
His opening paragraph says it all: “That government is best which governs not at all.”
He ends with a brief stay in the local jail for tax evasion.
Prose on the state, government, jingoism, taxes and politicians.
Have not we all wanted to stand up at one time, then only to place it as an afterthought, then to be forgotten.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Civil Disobedience (Original Title: Resistance to Civil Government) by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
This essay was written at a time when slavery was still officially authorized and the United States military had invaded Mexico, serving as a catalyst for Thoreau’s dissent against an one-sided government. His focus is on the primacy of the individual – and he disagrees that the individual should “serve” the State, especially when the state is one-sided.
Some of his memorable quotes include:
– The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
– (The state) is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical might. I was not born to be forced.
– When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money?
Ironic as it seems, what was written by Thoreau about the Congress in 1849 is still right today:
“Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freed, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufactures and agriculture. If we were left only to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.”
Thoreau concludes that “there will never be a free and enlightened State until the State comes to admit the individual as a privileged and independent power, from which all its own power and power are derived, and treats him accordingly.”
This could serve as a primer for the Tea Party Movement!
Dr. B Leland Baker, leader of Tea Party Revival, The Conscience of a Conservative Reborn
Tea Party Revival – The Conscience of a Conservative Reborn: The Tea Party Revolt Against Unconstrained Spending and Growth of the Federal Government
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a painstakingly American view on political theory agreed the emphasis on the individual coupled with the call for civil disobedience. Certainly not for the faint hearted, go into this with a grasp of the events of the day and a willingness to read the entire essay at least twice to fully appreciate Thoreau’s points.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Thoreau’s writing on “Duty of Civil Disobedience” is brilliant! I have LONG been a fan of the writings of HDT and once journeyed to Walden to see the cabin he lived in but a brief time. This book is so regularly cited as required reading among persons who advocate non-violent protests. While I clearly see why it provides useful information for these purposes, I establish myself disappointed by the rustic, “whiskey-uprising” kind of thinking of anti-taxation agreed that he also advocates the reader’s taking benefits from the state. I’m now conflicted. I find the writings and man a genius, even in persons instances in which I disagree with the extent of his anti-taxation position.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5