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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 657
AUTHOR: Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
QUOTATION: Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
ATTRIBUTION: HENRY DAVID THOREAU, “Walking,” Excursions, p. 266 (1894). The essay on walking was first published after Thoreau’s death, in Atlantic Monthly, June 1862.
SUBJECTS: Freedom