Quote#Politics & Power
No good government can ever want more than two things for its…
Quote byJames Mill · 1773–1836
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Edinburgh Review, vol. 21 (1813), pp. 217-18.
English (original)
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
— James Mill
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