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This is the same call that Gandhi made to Indian beauraucrats who worked for the British: " If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.""

p. 6/18: " The American has dwindled into an Odd
Fellow-one who may be known by the development of his organ of
gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect ..."

That part has not changed, I see.

I didn't realize that he had written this during the Mexican-Amer. War...

Inspired by spending the morning at the BMV

“Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions… they would deserve to be punished with those who put obstacles on the railroads.”
King eat with that tho

Hard librarian opening, but I’m letting him cook. Talking about how governments makes wars that the people don’t agree to, and see most of the consequences of, type shit, and so in turn; no gov is better than A (any) governing body. Childish way to look at it but I guess that’s the let him cook bit?