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Quotes from The United States Magazine and Democratic Review — John L. O'Sullivan

1813–1895 United States

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Understood as a central consolidated power, managing and directing the various general interests of the society, all government is evil, and the parent of evil... The best government is that which governs least.

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1837)

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