text:  Our whole time and our undivided energies would be employed in acting hastily and repenting at leisure; in repining either because our biennial revolutions went too far or did not go far enough; in expending our national strength in the unprofitable struggles of faction with faction adventurer with adventurer: with every change we should become more changeful and with every settlement more unsettled: one by one our distant colonies would follow the bright example of our people at home and our commerce and trade would fall with our colonial empire