As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Burke describes the British authority as a sanctuary of liberty that the colonies will look to for guidance.
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But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.
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