'If the social order were to be genuinely menaced, if the great principles on which rests were to be at serious risk, then many of the most determined oppositionists, the most enthusiastic republicans would be, we are convinced, the first to join the ranks of the conservative party'
- Count Cavour of Piedmont(1846), practically anticipating the universal failure of 1848 revolutions in Europe.
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