Let him fly where he will, from law to law; law, I thank God, meets him everywhere, and enforced, too, by the practice of the most impious tyrants, which he quotes as if it would justify his conduct.
Burke emphasizes the inescapability of law, regardless of one's attempts to evade it.
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