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  • Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

    Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.83
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