Henry David Thoreau Quote

Quote from 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 the will have."

By:	Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)
	(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist
Source:	A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http:
Categories:	Government
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