Well, now, it is better for your fatherland to be a monarchy or a republic? For four thousand years has this question been debated. Ask the rich for an answer, they all prefer aristocracy; question the people, they want democracy; only kings prefer royalty. How then is it that nearly the whole world is governed by monarchs? Ask the rats who proposed to hang a bell round the cats neck. But in truth, the real reason is, as has been said, that men are very rarely worthy of governing themselves. It is sad that often in order to be a good patriot one is the enemy of the rest of mankind. To be a good patriot is to wish that ones city may be enriched by trade, and be powerful by arms. It is clear that one country cannot gain without another losing, and that it cannot conquer without making misery. Such then is the human state that to wish for ones countrys greatness is to wish harm to ones neighbors. He who should wish his fatherland might never be greater, smaller, richer, poorer, would be the citizen of the world.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:53:37 +0000
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