More Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

True place for a just man is the prison...in that place where the state places all those who are not with her, but against her.
"If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person."

Thoreau states that he can afford to resist allegiance and the penalty of disobedience would be less than that of obedience.
He wrote a note that he would not be paying to be a member of which he didn't sign up. He was left alone afterwards.
He had not payed poll-tax for 6 years and was put in jail for one night. He wondered on why he should be placed in jail, as if it were the best way to attain his service. He was punished physically since he was not learning anything from it. He lost all respect and pitied the State.
"Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses."
"They force me to become like themselves."
"When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be haste to give it my money?"

His cell mate was in for burning a barn, which he claim he hadn't done. He was let out of prison because someone intervened for him and payed the tax.