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- Title: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Author : Henry David Thoreau
- Release Date : January 19, 2012
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 377 KB
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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 they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.