"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

— Henry David Thoreau