Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectu…

Henry David Thoreau
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Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, p.108, Simon and Schuster
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