After having been so long subject to a foreign dominion, there was among the Britons no royal family, no respected order in the state, none of those titles to government, confirmed by opinion and long use, more efficacious than the wisest schemes for the settlement of the nation.
Burke highlights the absence of a royal family or respected order among the Britons after foreign rule.
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The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.
The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.
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