QUOTATION: Every country has the government it deserves.
ATTRIBUTION: Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821), French diplomat, philosopher. letter, Aug. 15, 1811. Lettres et Opuscules Inedits, vol. 1, no. 53 (1851).

Thomas Carlyle, in Past and Present, bk. 4, ch. 4 (1843), wrote: “In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

No comment. dxb 2002.