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1174. CENTRALIZATION, Liberty and. [continued].

What has destroyed the liberty and the rights of man in every government
which has ever existed under the sun?
The generalizing and concentrating all cares
and powers into one body, no matter whether
of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of
the aristocrats of a Venetian Senate.—
To Joseph C. Cabell. Washington ed. vi, 543.
(M. 1816)