 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...  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Page 2481924 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | R. Amy Elman - 1996 - 164 pages
...American political culture. The essayist Henry David Thoreau expressed this well when he exclaimed I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best..."That government is best which governs not at all." (1970, 109) Thoreau's emphasis on freedom from state authority accounts for his stature as one of the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - 220 pages
...Bedau, ed., Civil Disobedience in Focus (London: Routledge, 1991). Resistance to Civil Government I heartily accept the motto, - "That government is best...systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - 236 pages
...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ON GOVERNMENT: "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best...to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it f1nally amounts to this, which I also believe, — 'That government is best which governs not at all;'... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 pages
...Prose Nonfiction "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' Henry David Thoreau I heartily accept the mono — "That government is best which governs least"; and...see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carricd out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is bert which governs... | |
 | Karl-Peter Sommermann - 1997 - 630 pages
...10-32; siehe dort S. 10: »I heartily accept the motto: >That government is best which governs leasf; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly...be the kind of government which they will have.« Deutsche Ausgabe (von WE Richartz): Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat, in: HD Thoreau,... | |
 | Morris B. Kaplan - 1997 - 310 pages
...consciousness. Thoreau's essay both deploys and radicalizes the rhetoric of the American democracy: "I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is...see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically." (224)14 This Jeffersonian creed, which figures also in Emerson's "Politics," is immediately under pressure... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...important political essays ever, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." In that essay, Thoreau writes, "/ heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best...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.... | |
 | John Ryder - 1999 - 374 pages
...1985, 87). 4 Thoreau expressed the same point in the well known passage in "Civil Disobedience": I heartily accept the motto, — "That government is...that will be the kind of government which they will have.5 Transcendentalist democracy implies not a form of political organization but what Batalov describes... | |
 | Alan B. Carter - 1999 - 436 pages
...liberals than to state socialists. For example, consider the following remark by Henry David Thoreau: 'I heartily accept the motto, - "That government is best...systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, - "That government is best which governs not at all" '.7 This might be taken to imply... | |
 | Peter Moore, Tyler - 1999 - 638 pages
...a credo of philosophical anarchism that is believed to have been an inspiration to Mahatma Gandhi. I believe . . . that government is best which governs not at all; and when men are ready for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. ... A government in which the... | |
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