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Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881

The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants; but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Benjamin Disraeli on government

Lothair (1870), Preface.

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