Just started reading Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
It's about how much better the government is when it governs least, and how one should question it and its motives.
Some favorite quotes (that are also relevant to present-day):
"The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail may also at last be brought against a standing government."
"Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure."
"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."
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