No man, who had any share in the management of the Company's revenues, ever gave a bribe, who did not either extort the full amount of it from the country, or else fall in balance to the Company to that amount, and frequently both.
Burke asserts that those involved in managing revenues often resort to bribery, either extracting it from the country or compensating the company.
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We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
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