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“It must never be forgotten that the excellence of a government consists, not in its theoretic perfection, but in the degree to which it is adapted to the nature and character of the people for whom it is set up.”

— Simón Bolívar

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Wikiquote: Simón Bolívar
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Context

Quoted in Jacques Bainville, Dictators (1937), pp. 139-140

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Bolívar, Simón. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Simón Bolívar. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simón_Bolívar

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