Ambitious men who, listening only to their passions, arm natives of
the same land against each other (under the deceitful pretext of
the public good), are still more criminal. For however arbitrary a
government, the institutions which have been consolidated by time, are
always preferable to civil war, and to that anarchy which the latter is
obliged to create for the justification of its crimes.
To be faithful to his sovereign, and to respect the established
government, are the first principles which ought to distinguish a
soldier and a man of honor.