Famous quotes containing the words states, government and/or printing:
“Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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