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In fact, you may place power in weak hands at a revolution, but you cannot keep it in weak hands.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “In fact, you may place power in weak hands at a revolution, but you cannot keep it in weak hands.”
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Bagehot asserts that while power can be placed in weak hands during a revolution, it cannot be sustained there.
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