I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least";... Carried… — Henry David Thoreau
I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least";... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,—"That government is best which governs not at all."
The Relation of the Individual to the State · 1848
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Thoreau, Henry. "Civil Disobedience." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.
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Thoreau, Henry. "The Relation of the Individual to the State." 26 Jan. 1848, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA.
