"The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny."

Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.

Simon Bolivar

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