I will breathe after my own fashion.
Let us see who is the strongest.
What force has a multitude?
They only can force me who obey a higher law than I.
They force me to become like themselves.
I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men.
What sort of life were that to live?
When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be in haste to give it my money?
It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that.
It must help itself; do as I do.
It is not worth the while to snivel about it.
I am not the son of the engineer.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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