Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

#Action

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of...

#Government

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

#Government

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There...

#Dreams

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

#Government

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

#Truth

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

#Speech, #Truth

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish...

#Wisdom

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

#Friendship, #Love

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain,...

#Government

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and...

#Government

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments...

#Government