Henry David Thoreau

"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."

"Civil Disobedience," 1849