Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.
Calvin CoolidgeThe government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
Calvin Coolidge