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  5. I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which...

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist
Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1
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.