How prone all human
institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely
organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how
difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their
dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate
of despotism.
. . . James Monroe
Speech in the Virginia
Ratifying Convention
1788
Experience has shown that even under
the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by
slow operations, perverted into tyranny.
. . . Thomas Jeferson
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