When I am told that, since the laws are weak and the populace is wild, since passions are excited and the authority of virtue is paralyzed, no measures must be taken to increase the rights of the democracy, I reply, that it is for these very reasons that some measures of the kind must be taken;
Esaten zaidanean legeak ahulak, gobernatuak asaldakorrak, grinak biziak eta bertutea botere gabea dela, eta egoera honetan ezin dela imajinatu demokraziaren eskubideak areagotzerik, erantzun ohi dut, nire ustez, gauza horiexengatik, hain zuzen, pentsatu behar dela horretan;