British Government

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“Gorgonised me from head to foot,
With a stony British stare.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“The government does not concern me much, and I shall bestow the fewest possible thoughts on it. It is not many moments that I live under a government, even in this world. If a man is thought- free, fancy-free, imagination-free ... unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)