The best instituted governments, carry in them the seeds of their destruction: and, though they grow and improve for a time, they will soon tend visibly to their dissolution. Every hour they live is an hour the less that they have to live.
Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke, 1738
A British
political philosopher who was very influential for the US Founding
Fathers and Voltaire
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