There they find that men are equal; and the earth, the kind and equal mother of all, ought not to be monopolized to foster the pride and luxury of any men, who by nature are no better than themselves, and who, if they do not labor for their bread, are worse.
Burke asserts that all men are equal and critiques the monopolization of resources by the privileged.
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Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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