"The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror."

"A perfect democracy is, therefore, the most shameless thing in the world."

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"The effects of liberty on the human mind are not always favourable to the peace of society, or to the order of a state."

"The true politician, when he is called to the helm of a state, is to know how to preserve it from the storms, and not to expose it to them."