We may bite our chains, if we will, but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is born to be governed by law; and he that will substitute will in the place of it is an enemy to GOD.
Burke reflects on the nature of human governance, asserting that law is essential and that rejecting it is an affront to divinity.
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