"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 governs not at all'; . . . The objections that have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, . . . may also at last be brought against a standing government." This quotation was most probably written by.
a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Henry David Thoreau
e. Jefferson Davis
Answer: d. Henry David Thoreau
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