There is no good government but a republic, which is an empire of laws, not of men

Drawn from what John Adams said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What John Adams actually said

John Adams c. 1776 Second US President (1735 to 1826)

They will convince any candid mind, that there is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; because the very definition of a republic is "an empire of laws, and not of men."

Where this was said

↗Thoughts on Government (1776)en.wikisource.org

c. 1776

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