Question

What three reasons does Thoreau give for his loss of respect for the government?

Answer 1

1) It does not keep the country free.
2) It does not settle the West.
3) It does not educate.

Answer 2

I saw that the State was halfwitted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it...Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau