Our constitution is but of yesterday, and it requires calm to take root.

A state of crisis, such as war, opposes all regular movements of political bodies.

If your armies combat abroad, who will repress faction at home?
You are flattered with the belief that you have only Austria to cope against.

You are promised that the other northern powers will not interfere; do not rely on this.

Even England cannot remain neuter: if the exigencies of the war lead you to revolutionise Belgium, or to invade Holland, she will join Prussia to support the stadtholder against you.