Words of Queen Victoria on the reassembling of parliament. Every question of labor and wages, say with one accord the economic and representative theorists, must remain outside of the attributes of power.
Kings can do nothing for the salvation of mortals.
And finally, as it is impossible that the prince and the interests which it is his mission to defend should consent to diminish and disappear before emergent principles and new rights posited, it follows that progress, after being accomplished in the mind insensibly, is realized in society by leaps, and that force, in spite of the calumny of which it is the object, is the necessary condition of reforms. Promptly, at the slightest nod of your head, a numerous army starts up, runs to arms, and forms in line of battle. As for us, who view the mission of power from quite another standpoint, and who wish the special work of government to be precisely that of exploring the future, searching for progress, and securing for all liberty, equality, health, and wealth, we continue our task of criticism courageously, entirely sure that, when we have laid bare the cause of the evils of society, the principle of its fevers, the motive of its disturbances, we shall not lack the power to apply the remedy.