Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Birthday: September 18
Death: December 13
Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the re-establishment of its original constitution.
source: Samuel Johnson (1792). “The Rambler”, p.354
topic: Government, Principles, Firsts, Resuscitation