You, who have looked at this matter with as fair and impartial an eye as can be united with a feeling heart, you will not think it an hardy assertion, when I affirm that it were far better to be conquered by any other nation than to have this faction for a neighbor.
Burke expresses a strong preference for foreign conquest over living next to a dangerous faction, emphasizing the threat posed by internal enemies.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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