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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 the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
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Thoureau said it better than I can. The simple fact is that regardless of what our laws ans Constitution say, nobody, under any circumstances, has the right to do much of what our government does.