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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 740
AUTHOR: Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821)
QUOTATION: Every country has the government it deserves.
(Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.)
ATTRIBUTION: JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE, letter to M. le chevalier de…, August 15, 1811.—Lettres et Opuscules Inédits du Comte J. De Maistre, 5th ed., book 1, p. 264 (1869).
SUBJECTS: Government