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They have all been tried, these different forms of government--monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, and despotism--in some century or some country, and in time they have all been found wanting. The notion that one or the other is an advance is falsified by history.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 578