[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep r…

Mark Twain
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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more. ✨ Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, p.269
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