Henry David Thoreau [Archive.org URL]

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead. […] I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors.

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