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"This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will."
- Thoreau, Henry David

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17705/">This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7227/">Thoreau, Henry David</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/government/">Government</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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