Edmund Burke: “What should we feel under this inhuman, insulting, and barbarous protection of Muscovites, Swedes, or Hollanders?”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.