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A revolution happens when you lose confidence in a government and there is no alternative

— Quett Masire

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In a democracy like ours, elections belong to citizens, not the government and its institutions. Government institutions conduct elections on behalf of the people.

Bad governance doesn’t just undermine service delivery, it retards development, and it also drives violence

The old order must give way before it corrupted the new

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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