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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
Men, Kind, Anarchist
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1
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.