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Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist [[anarchist]].[3] Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government – "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"[4] – the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”[4][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden]
Thoreau is sometimes cited as an individualist [[anarchist]].[3] Though Civil Disobedience calls for improving rather than abolishing government – "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"[4] – the direction of this improvement aims at anarchism: “‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”[4][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden]
==References==
# Biography of Henry David Thoreau, American Poems (2000-2007 Gunnar Bengtsson).
# Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod, by Henry David Thoreau, Library of America, ISBN 0940450275
# Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, edited by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Alvin Saunders Johnson, 1937, p. 12.
# Thoreau, H. D. Resistance to Civil Government
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