"The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual..."

““The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all. This ideal, I believe, will be realized in the world twenty or thirty centuries after I have passed from these scenes and taken up my public duties in Hell.””

- Henry Louis Mencken (Matters of State, Prejudices:Third Series 1922)