Scantily fed for a while with the offal of plunder, they will drop off by degrees; they will be driven out of sight and out of thought; and they will be left to perish obscurely, like rats, in holes and corners.
Burke paints a grim picture of those left to suffer in obscurity after failed attempts at plunder.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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.
A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.
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