Thomas Carlyle Quote

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.


Past and Present (ed. 1918)


Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.