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Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.

Mahatma Gandhi on government

From Discussion with BG Kher and others, 15 August 1940. Gandhi’s Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram Parkash, p. 67 also in Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 79 (PDF), p. 122

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