KBC Offline Quiz (November 26, 2021): Who is the author of the famous statement, “That government is the best which governs least”?

(A) Herbert Spencer

(B) Harold Laski

(C) Alexis De Tocqueville

(D) Henry David Thoreau

Answer: (D) Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau in 1849 said :

“We’ve heard it said, that government is best which governs least.

That government is best which governs not at all,

and when men are prepared for it,

that will be the kind of government they will have”.

The United States went to war against Mexico in May 1846. That July, while living at Walden Pond, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax as a protest against the conflict, for he saw the war as an effort to extend the realm of slavery. As a result, the local constable arrested him, and he spent the night in the Concord jail. The next day a relative—probably his aunt—paid the tax, and he was released. As Thoreau continued his study of the woods and himself, he also contemplated the nature of government and the citizen’s connection to it: out of this came to his statement explaining his act of protest. Published in 1849, his essay has since become the classic justification for acts of civil disobedience. Mohandas K. Gandhi was inspired by its message and adopted Thoreau’s principles in his lifelong campaign to gain Indian independence from Great Britain. Thoreau’s ideas also influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. in his campaign for racial equality in the 1950s and 1960s, according to www.wwnorton. com.

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