Edmund Burke: “We ought to have cultivated France, and France alone, from the moment of her Revolution.”

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.