Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic g…

Calvin Coolidge
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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure. ✨ Calvin Coolidge (2001). The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, p.343, The Minerva Group, Inc.
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