Edmund Burke: “Thus, without law or government of her own, France gives law to all the governments in Europe.”

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

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.