O, Thoreau

I have a few quotes, maybe because I feel like a better person for having read them.

"No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to."

"We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and the whole heart, not represented. A semi-human tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot way."

"It seems as if no man had ever died in America before, for in order to die you must first have lived."

"When were the good and the brave ever in the majority?"

For more such quips, read A Plea for Captain John Brown by Thoreau.