Simon Bolivar — "The continuation of authority in one individual has frequently been the undoing …"
The continuation of authority in one individual has frequently been the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because nothing is so dangerous as to suffer power to be continued for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he to commanding them; hence the usurpation and tyranny.
