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" The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. "
The Spirit of American Literature - Page 178
by John Albert Macy - 1913 - 347 pages
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool ; for, in the outset, the people would...
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Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...government. The government itself, which is , only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool ; for, in the outset, the people would...
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Essays and Other Writings of Henry Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pages
...only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused I and perverted before the people can act through it....the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool ; for, in the outset, the people would...
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - 1892 - 304 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the preset Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical ..., Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using 132 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset,...
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Miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would...
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Tolstoy and His Problems

Aylmer Maude - 1901 - 352 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool ; for, in the outset, the people would...
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Cape Cod, and miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 560 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool ; for, in the outset, the people would...
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Man Or the State?: A Group of Essays by Famous Writers

Waldo Ralph Browne - 1919 - 166 pages
...government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted...the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would...
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