Edmund Burke: “Was there ever, since the world began, any man who would dare to avow such sentiments, until driven to the wall?”

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

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

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.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.