I am afraid that we came to Court in the same dispositions as all parties have done; that the principal spring of our actions was to have the government of the state in our hands; that our principal views were the conservation of this power, great employments to ourselves, and great opportunities of rewarding those who had helped to raise us and of hurting those who stood in opposition to us.
~~Lord Bolingbroke (1717)
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Friday, August 03, 2007
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It seems that the disposition of governments should be added to death and taxes in the list of eternal certainties.
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