Why should I trade one tyrant three-thousand miles away, for three-thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights just as easily as a king can.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.