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Quotes:

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now." - Henry David Thoreau.

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." - Henry David Thoreau.

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." - Henry David Thoreau.

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau.

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." - Henry David Thoreau.

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough." - Henry David Thoreau.

"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." - Henry David Thoreau.

"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society." - Henry David Thoreau.

"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil." - Henry David Thoreau.

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." - Henry David Thoreau.

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau.

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau.

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau.

"That government is best which governs least." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The universe is wider than our views of it." - Henry David Thoreau.

"The State represents violence in a concentrated and organised form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence." - Mahatma Ghandi.

"[...A]llow the criticism to sharpen your argument and, when it turns to name calling, know that you have won the argument." - Ben Swann.

"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people". - Friedrich Nietzsche.

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." - Abraham Lincoln.

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves." - William John Henry Boetcker.

"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?" - Frederic Bastiat.

"The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves." - Lysander Spooner.

"The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you." - P.J. O'Rourke.

"History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte.

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion." - Thomas Jefferson.