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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then ? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time'i what I think right. It is...
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Anti-slavery and Reform Papers

Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...man a. f-.onanience, then \JI| (think thai, we shnnlrl ba man first, and subjects after-^ Vwari^ylt is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time wl J-ihrinV rrgtit It is truly...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical ..., Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assumo is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 10

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly...
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Miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? Jj! think that we should be men- first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ^ The only obligation whichj have a riffht to assiitnp TsTo do at jmy_time jwhat I think rjghftTlt...
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Cape Cod, and miscellanies

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 560 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then ? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly...
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Why Freedom Matters

Norman Angell - Draft - 1919 - 60 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards. It is not desirable to / > cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Spring...
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Man Or the State?: A Group of Essays by Famous Writers

Waldo Ralph Browne - State, The - 1919 - 164 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly...
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The Essential American Tradition: An Anthology of Striking and Significant ...

Jesse Lee Bennett - American literature - 1925 - 374 pages
...Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right. RALPH...
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The Reference Shelf, Volume 4, Issue 9

Edith M. Phelps - Debates and debating - 1927 - 206 pages
...writer. every man a conscience, then ? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. . . There...
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