“ In our day governments not only fail to encourage, but directly hinder every movement by which people try to work out new forms of life for themselves. ”
 Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894). copy citation

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“From the end of last century there has hardly been a single progressive movement of humanity which has not been retarded by the government. So it has been with abolition of corporal punishment, of trial by torture, and of slavery, as well as with the establishment of the liberty of the press and the right of public meeting. In our day governments not only fail to encourage, but directly hinder every movement by which people try to work out new forms of life for themselves. Every attempt at the solution of the problems of labor, land, politics, and religion meets with direct opposition on the part of government. "Without governments nations would be enslaved by their neighbors."” source