Quotulatiousness

May 10, 2014

QotD: Ideal government

Filed under: Government, Liberty, Quotations — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 14:03

The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle to Herbert Spencer, is one which lets the individual alone — one which barely escapes being no government at all. This ideal, I believe, will be realized in the world twenty or thirty centuries after I have passed from these scenes and taken up my home in Hell.

H.L. Mencken, “Le Contrat Social”, Prejudices, Third Series, 1922

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