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The Best Government

I firmly believe that the best government is the least government unless, of course, the government is doing something that specifically benefits me. In that case, more power to it!

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  1. IludiumPhosdex says:
    September 3, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    An interesting observation from The Dictionary of Misinformation by Tom Burnam (Crowell, 1975) on that point:

    “That government is best which governs least.” This quotation which occurs in the first sentence of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Occasionally that notion is corrected by showing, rather, that it is from the masthead of the “Democratic Review,” to which Thoreau contributed. Actually it is from Thomas Paine. Thoreau, it should be added, did not claim the remark as his.

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