Rejecting, as we have done, all false, spurious, and hypocritical virtues, we should hold it to be the greatest of all crimes to bestow upon the oppressors that pity which belongs to the oppressed.
Burke asserts that it is a grave crime to show pity to oppressors instead of the oppressed.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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