Civil Disobedience (1849)
Henry David Thoreau
I heartily accept the motto, βThat government is best which governs leastβ 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.
