The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pit… - Alexis de Tocqueville

This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.

Discovery attends on every quest,
Except for renegades who shirk the toil.
Now certain men have pushed discovery
Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know,—
How planets rise and set and wheel about,
And of the sun’s eclipse. If men have probed
Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth,
This common home to which we’re born, defy them?

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.