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. (Henry David Thoreau)

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.

Henry David Thoreau

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