He may sacrifice the royalists of France, whom he had called to his standard, as a salutary example to those who shall adhere to their native sovereign, or shall confide in any other who undertakes the cause of oppressed kings and of loyal subjects.
Burke warns of the consequences for royalists who align with a monarch that betrays their cause.
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They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
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