Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001.
Popular government is in itself, therefore, less iniquitous, less abominable than despotic power.
The real vice of a civilized republic is in the Turkish fable of the dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails. The many heads hurt each other, and the many tails obey a single head which wants to devour everything. Democracy seems suitable only to a very little country, and further it must be happily situated. Small though it be, it will make many mistakes, because it will be composed of men. The dispute ends always by agreeing that to govern men is very difficult.