There is no other government so subject to civil wars and internal agitations as democratic or popular government, because there is none that has such a strong and continual tendency to change to another form, or that needs more vigilance and courage for its maintenance as it is. It is in a democratic system above all that the citizen should arm himself with strength and constancy, and say every day of his life what a virtuous Count Palatine said in the Polish parliament: ‘Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem’[*].
A population of gods could have a democratic government. A government as perfect as that is not for men.
[*] I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery
