We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.