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A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of ... John Stuart Mill, Essay on Representative Government - published 1860

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Title: A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices used to cheat them out of ... John Stuart Mill, Essay on Representative Government - published 1860
Creator: Citizens, Inc
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917/1918?
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution
Collection: Hoover Institution Digital Collections
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Type: image
Identifier: XX343.28446
Relation: Poster collection

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