A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, how…

John Stuart Mill
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1964). Collected works of John Stuart Mill
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