Sample Essay
‘This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.’ (Thoreau D. Henry ‘WALDEN, and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE’)
The document starts of with Thoreau supporting the motto ‘That government is best which governs least’. An important point in his essay is that issues that the civil population has objections to should be protested against. According to him it is wrong to think that reform and revolution is only needed when your country is being invaded but even when your nation is the invading country as in the case of America invading Mexico.
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