The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of the First Principles of Government (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
1748 (first published), 1777 (final edition)
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