Government Harming People

Via Jay Nordlinger, from Frederick Douglass's "What Shall Be Done with the Slaves If Emancipated?"

Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone.