Edmund Burke: “A constant emulation in courtesy and politeness, as well as in military exploits, had been kept up between him and…”

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.