Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have...