FTP, name this essay by Henry David Thoreau.
The first poetic passage quoted in this work is from Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna" and it also quotes from Shakespeare's King John, Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy, and George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar. It ends by asking if democracy is the "last improvement possible in government" and suggests that a better state would "recognize the individual as a higher and independent power." It first appeared in the Aesthetic Papers published by Elizabeth Peabody in 1849 and begins with the motto "That government is best which governs least." FTP, name this essay by Henry David Thoreau.
The first poetic passage quoted in this work is from Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna" and it also quotes from Shakespeare's King John, Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy, and George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar.
"Civil Disobedience" (or "Resistance to Civil Government")