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1 1| accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; 2 1| which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not 3 1| that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government 4 1| government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; 5 1| brought against a standing government. The standing army is only 6 1| only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, 7 1| standing government. The government itself, which is only the 8 1| individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the 9 2| This American government - what is it but a tradition, 10 2| to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments 11 2| must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered 12 2| done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in 13 2| sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient by which 14 3| ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. 15 3| government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known 16 3| make known what kind of government would command his respect, 17 4| physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule 18 4| understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not 19 4| such a man as an American government can make, or such as it 20 15| behave toward this American government today? I answer, that he 21 15| political organization as my government which is the slave's government 22 15| government which is the slave's government also.~ ~ 23 16| allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its 24 16| tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain 25 17| Duty of Submission to Civil Government," resolves all civil obligation 26 17| long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed 27 17| that the established government be obeyed - and no longer. 28 24| refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is 29 24| name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last 30 25| character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance 31 27| generally, under such a government as this, think that they 32 27| But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is 33 28| offence never contemplated by government; else, why has it not assigned 34 29| friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance 35 31| person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not 36 32| I meet this American government, or its representative, 37 32| representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, 38 32| chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know 39 32| does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is 40 33| Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, 41 34| the advantages of Caesar's government, then pay him back some 42 35| protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences 43 35| good subject of the Turkish government. Confucius said: "If a state 44 38| that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, "Your 45 58| State and this American government are, in many respects, very 46 59| However, the government does not concern me much, 47 59| moments that I live under a government, even in this world. If 48 60| Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with 49 60| essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those 50 63| The authority of government, even such as I am willing 51 63| improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take