I think arguments of this kind will never be used by the friends of a government which I greatly respect, or by any of the leaders of an opposition whom I have the honor to know and the sense to admire.
Burke expresses confidence that respected government leaders will not use certain arguments.
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This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.
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.
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