Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist.... it is in general a necessary condition of free institutions that the boundaries of governments should coincide in the main with those of nationalities.
-John Stuart Mill
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