The Revolution was made, not to make France free, but to make her formidable,--not to make her a neighbor, but a mistress,--not to make her more observant of laws, but to put her in a condition to impose them.
Burke critiques the Revolution for its aim to make France a dominant power rather than a free nation.
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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.
They look upon the legal hereditary succession of their crown as among their rights, not as among their wrongs,--as a benefit, not as a grievance,--as a security for their liberty, not as a badge of servitude.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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