In the last resort, the moral quality of a government-of any government-is conditioned by the moral quality of the people whom it governs: for it is the people themselves who produce the personnel of the great administrative machinery which we describe as "government." (Muhammad Asad)

In the last resort, the moral quality of a government-of any government-is conditioned by the moral quality of the people whom it governs: for it is the people themselves who produce the personnel of the great administrative machinery which we describe as "government."

Muhammad Asad

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