To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad gov…

Mark Twain
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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition, p.169, Univ of California Press
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