Henry David Thoreau: "Yang lainnya - seperti kebanyakan legislator, po...

"Yang lainnya - seperti kebanyakan legislator, politisi, pengacara, menteri, dan pemegang jabatan - melayani negara terutama dengan kepala mereka; dan, karena mereka jarang membuat perbedaan moral, mereka cenderung melayani iblis, tanpa bermaksud, sebagai Tuhan. Sangat sedikit - seperti pahlawan, patriot, martir, reformis dalam arti besar, dan laki-laki - melayani negara dengan hati nurani mereka juga, dan karenanya harus menolaknya untuk sebagian besar."

--- Henry David Thoreau

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Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders - serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few - as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part.