Civil disobedience
Title: Civil disobedience
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 9292 | Pages: 34 (approximately 235 words/page)
Civil disobedience
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 9292 | Pages: 34 (approximately 235 words/page)
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. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are
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think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which I have also imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
