Even in England, where I admit the danger from the discontent of that persuasion to be less than in Ireland, yet even here, had we listened to the counsels of fanaticism and folly, we might have wounded ourselves very deeply, and wounded ourselves in a very tender part.
Burke cautions against the dangers of ignoring the discontent among Catholics in England.
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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 speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
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