"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.“


-Thomas Carlyle

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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

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