Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns hi…

Henry David Thoreau
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, p.3, Hayes Barton Press
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

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