Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
723
AUTHOR:
George Hoadly
QUOTATION:
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE HOADLY, remarks in Ohio constitutional convention, June 19, 1873.Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Third Constitutional Convention of Ohio , p. 436 (1873).