The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The strength of the nation ultimately depends upon the strength of family and community.
When government grows, it breaks the family.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.