But when I heard a complaint of a pressure on religious liberty, to my astonishment I find that there was no complaint whatsoever of the insufficiency of the act of King William, nor any attempt to make it more sufficient.
Burke is surprised to find that complaints about religious liberty do not stem from issues with the existing law.
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It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
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