Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative; he sees the selfishness of property, and the drowsiness of institutions. But neither is he fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted; for parties wish every one committed, and he penetrates the popular patriotism. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Montaigne; or, the Skeptic, Representative Men (1850), Chapter 4