None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.
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