The man who has made up his mind to win will never say"Impossible"
Subjects prize public tranquility; citizens the freedom of the individual - the former prefer security of possessions, the latter security of person; subjects thinks the best government is the most severe, citizens that it is the mildest; the former want crimes to be punished, the latter want them be prevented; subjects think it is a good thing to be feared by their neighbours, citizens prefer to be ignored by them; the former are satisfied so long as money circulates, the latter demand that the people shall have bread.
It is less important to consider the apparent repose and tranquility of rulers than the wellbeing of whole nations and above all of the most populous states. A hailstorm may devastate a few cantons, but it rarely causes famine. Riots and civil wars may greatly alarm rulers, but they are not the true misfortunes of peoples. When all remains supine under the yoke, it is then that everything decays, it is then that the rulers can destroy them at their ease. When the quarrels of the state disturbed the kingdom of France, and the Coadjutor of Paris attended the Parlement with a dagger in his pocket, this did not prevent the French people living happily and multiplying in a free and decent ease. Greece flourished at the height of the cruellest wars; blood flowed in torrents, but the whole country was thickly populated. A little disturbance gives vigour to the soul, and what really makes the species prosper is not peace but freedom.
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