"Statesmen and legislators…all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits." "Government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted."
Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - 'That government is best which governs not at all'"
“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. And it still has much to say today, if we will listen. The book helped inspire the World War II resistance, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, those struggling against apartheid, and others. Less remembered, however, is that while living at Walden Pond, he gave an 1848 lecture on “Resistance to Civil Government”- since published as Civil Disobedience -which had much farther reaching effects. Today, July 12, marks the 200 th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, known best for chronicling his experiment in simple and self-sufficient living in Walden.
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