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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 736
AUTHOR: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–59)
QUOTATION: We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 13 (1900).
SUBJECTS: Government
 


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