This provided it with friends who joined those of the establishment and who together formed a platoon against the State.

The King would not consent to this: he regarded such unions as dangerous in a State."] [Footnote 2324: "Napoleon Ire et ses lois civiles," by Honore Perouse, 280: Words of Napoleon: "I have for a long time given a great deal of thought and calculation to the re-establishment of the social edifice.
I am to-day obliged to watch over the maintenance of public liberty.

I have no idea of the French people becoming serfs."-- "The prefects are wrong in straining their authority."-- "The repose and freedom of citizens should not depend on the exaggeration or arbitrariness of a mere administrator."-- "Let authority be felt by the people as little as possible and not bear down on them needlessly."-- (Letters of January 15, 1806, March 6, 1807, January 12, 1809, to Fouche, and of March 6, 1807, to Regnault.)--Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Consulat," P.178 (Words of the first consul before the council of state): "True civil liberty depends on the security of property.

In no country can the rate of the tax-payer be changed every year.

A man with 3000 francs income does not know how much he will have left to live on the following year; his entire income may be absorbed by the assessment on it...