While being citizen of the United States of America was something to be proud of in Thoreau's day, only decades earlier stating something similar could have been grounds for being thrown in a British prison, "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. ...

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