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Quotation #31913 from Contributed Quotations:

Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's Final Speech In the Constitutional Convention (available at http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/nvsageh/Hist121/Part2/franklin.htm)
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)  

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