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- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 26
- ISBN-10: 1544608926
- ISBN-13: 9781544608921
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
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- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 26
- ISBN-10: 1544608926
- ISBN-13: 9781544608921
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
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