Henry David Thoreau:

I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

— Henry David Thoreau Modern

Civil disobedience, Walden

Context

Civil Disobedience

Date / Period

1849

Source

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