A sick patient allows himself to be bound by the surgeon who is about to save his life; but when the operation is over he demands to be set at liberty.

Nations act in a like manner.

From the day when the benefits conferred by the master cease to compensate for the loss of liberty, the nation demands the restoration of its rights, and a wise dictator will comply with the demand.
I have often conversed in the Papal States with enlightened and honourable men, who rank as the heads of the middle class.

They have said to me almost unanimously:-- "If a man were to drop down from Heaven among us with sufficient power to cut to the root of abuses, to reform the administration, to send the priests to church and the Austrians to Vienna, to promulgate a civil code, make the country healthy, restore the plains to cultivation, encourage manufactures, give freedom to commerce, construct railways, secularize education, propagate modern ideas, and put us into a condition to bear comparison with the most enlightened countries in Europe, we would fall at his feet, and obey him as we do God.

You are told that we are ungovernable.