Edmund Burke: “His task is, to win it: he must leave posterity to enjoy and to adorn it.”

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

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.

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

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!