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“It is not always the going from bad to worse that causes a revolution. It happens more often that a people who have borne without complaint, and apparently without feeling, most oppressive laws, throw them off violently as soon as their weight lightens. The system that a revolution destroys is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience teaches that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually that in which it begins to reform.”

Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the USA
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The Penguin History of the USA The Penguin History of the USA by Hugh Brogan
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