QuoteQuest“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
Verification
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)
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Thoreau, Henry David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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