Quote#Politics & Power
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test:…
Quote byWilliam Cobbett · 1763–1835
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Political Register, XLVI, pp. 513-514 (31 May 1823).
English (original)
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
— William Cobbett
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