What is henry david thoreau saying and what is thomas paine

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Question: Can you please state what the Henry David Thoreau quote is stating? What does Henry David Thoreau mean when he is saying this? Also, please relate this quote to contemporary politics and how it connects with what is happening today, focus on a specific contemporary politics issue.

Also, connect the Henry David Thoreau's quote with Thomas Paine's quote and state how both quotes connect with each other. What is Henry David Thoreau saying and what is Thomas Paine saying, how do they both connect with each other, in terms of the following quotes?

Please place more emphasize on Henry David Thoreau's quote, especially when he is comparing society to a machine? How would you explain when he is comparing society to a machine as stated in Henry David Thoreau's quote? Can you please explain what this means and what contemporary relevance it has? Has there ever been a specific contemporary issue in which the society compared to a machine can be connected to?

Case Study: Henry David Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government Quote

"All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army...I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature it dies; and so a man...They speak of a moving society, but have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency"

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