Thoreau never, EVER fails to expound pure, effectively masterful truth!!!!!!!! This fact is as essential as the most basic mathematical law!!!!!!

I can truly appreciate this quote, as I have suffered through many situations that have compelled me to think completely about separate issues. And although many people do not wish to conform to the freedom had in examining things with an open mind, I am more than willing to do so!

This quote defines my very nature! I am always functioning in the manner Lessing declares!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo to him!

Simple and directly obvious!

Rings true, especially when it is spoken by a man who lived through the evil plight of slavery.

Absolutely true - without the movement of the individual's money, capital, etc., we would not exist as a (capitalist) nation.

This man, like so many others- Marx especially, knew the consequences of our very unstable democracy. He predicted (correctly, I think) that the dialectically "historical formula" would show the slow but sure movement toward complete communism.... somewhere in the reaches of heaven (or hell?) Marx and company must be laughing! Really heartily!!