Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” is taken from Walden. In it, Thoreau makes the argument for his going to live in the woods.
Henry David Thoreau
HENRY DAVID THOREAU: ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them…