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“Absolute democratic government is as much a tyranny as despotism.”

— Simón Bolívar

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Simón Bolívar
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Context

Quoted in Jacques Bainville, Dictators (1937), p. 140

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

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