Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Anarchism

• That government is best which governs least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Politics

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Transcendentalism, Anarchist

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Kind, Anarchist

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Ralph Waldo Emerson 29; O'Sullivan 1; Shipley 1

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