'"...Under popular government, ministers will become so impotent that even their wickedness and stupidity will do harm no more.
They will receive from the general assemblies only an uncertain and precarious authority; unable to indulge in far-flung hopes and vast schemes, they will spend their ephemeral existence in wretched expedients. They will grow jaundiced in the unhappy effort to read their orders on the five hundred faces of a crowd, ignorant and at cross-purposes; they will languish in restless impotence. They will become unused to foresee anything or prepare anything, and they will only study intrigue and falsehood..."
from The New Ministry, a piece in The Opinions of Jerome Coignard by Anatole France
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