But he will be a good despot.

For when he comes to a mere business routine of government he will endeavour to do ordinary justice.

Do we not assume the same thing in a jury ?" The old President smiled.
"I don't know," he said, "that I have any particular objection in detail to your excellent scheme of Government.

My only objection is a quite personal one.

It is, that if I were asked whether I would belong to it, I should ask first of all, if I was not permitted, as an alternative, to be a toad in a ditch.