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

Source: Letter, 31 Jul 1849, to Ellen Emerson (then 10 years old), eldest child of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.

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