Edmund Burke: “Government will be for a while the sport of contending factions, who, whilst they fight with one another, will all…”

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

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

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.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.