This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent…

Henry David Thoreau
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2015). Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary, p.206, 谷月社
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