Government
Patras is the regional capital of West Greece and the capital of the Achaea regional unit. Since 2011, the city is also the capital of the administrative division, which includes (along with West Greece) the regions of Peloponnese and the Ionian Islands.
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“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The only government that I recognize—and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army—is that power that establishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)