Henry David Thoreau — "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character …"