Is it wrong, in any sense, to render the people of England sensible how much they must suffer, if, unfortunately, such a wicked faction should become possessed in this country of the same power which their allies in the very next to us have so perfidiously usurped and so outrageously abused?
Burke warns the English people about the potential suffering if a wicked faction gains power similar to their allies.
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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.
But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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