There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.
ATTRIBUTION:
George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. letter, Jan. 2, 1821, to the poet Thomas Moore. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 8, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).
Written from Ravenna during a period of great revolutionary ferment.
