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Famous Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"That government is best which governs least."


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:

Civil Disobedience (1849)

Categories:

Bureaucracy, Civil Rights, Constitution, Government, Proverbs, Restraint, Tyranny, Usurpation, Virtue, Wisdom

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