moindre gouvernement
French translation: le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins
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peer agreement (net): +1Le meilleur gouvernement est celui qui gouverne le moins Explanation: "Thomas Jefferson - Wikiberal http://www.wikiberal.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, (13 avril 1743- 4 juillet 1826), est le troisième président des ... Le meilleur gouvernement est celui qui gouverne le moins." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 mins (2016-08-29 11:33:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "Le mot de la rédaction - Cahiers d'histoire. Revue d'histoire critique https://chrhc.revues.org/2058?lang=en by A Jollet - 2010 - Related articles On doit rapprocher la radicalité de cette proposition de celles qui se font jo (. ... conduisirent des révolutionnaires comme Jefferson à souhaiter le pouvoir le plus ... qu'on lui attribue « le meilleur gouvernement est celui qui gouverne le moins »." |
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peer agreement (net): +2le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins Explanation: - -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 minutes (2016-08-29 11:43:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 13 minutes (2016-08-29 11:43:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- C'est la traduction la plus fidèle, voir Internet |
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| Reference: "That government is best which governs least" Reference information: On le trouve cité au début de "Civil Disobedience" de Thoreau 1849: “I heartily accept the motto, — ‘That government is best which governs least.’” Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - American author, philosopher, naturalist and social critic The quotation “That government is best which governs least” is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but without any specific source. No source is given because, as noted by Jefferson scholars and books like Not So!: Popular Myths About America From Columbus to Clinton, there is no record that Jefferson ever said it. Nor did Thomas Paine, another “Founding Father” who is sometimes wrongly credited with the quote. Henry David Thoreau did use the line in “Civil Disobedience” (originally titled “Resistance to Civil Government”) and its appearance in that famous essay probably popularized the saying in its best known form. However, Thoreau seemed to be making it clear that he was citing an existing motto. He may have been paraphrasing the slogan coined by American journalist and editor John Louis O’Sullivan. In 1837, O’Sullivan wrote “The best government is that which governs least” in the opening editorial for his periodical The United States Magazine and Democratic Review. He then used those words as the motto of the Review until it ceased publication in 1859. Thoreau’s friend Ralph Waldo Emerson also penned an earlier version. In 1844, Emerson wrote in an essay titled “Politics”: “The less government we have, the better.” Reference: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html |
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