They are put out of all dispute by the thanks which, formally and as it were officially, they issue, in order to recommend and to promote the circulation of the most atrocious and treasonable libels against all the hitherto cherished objects of the love and veneration of this people.
Burke condemns the faction for promoting treasonous libels against cherished national values.
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They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
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.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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