On these ideas, instead of quarrelling with establishments, as some do, who have made a philosophy and a religion of their hostility to such institutions, we cleave closely to them.
Burke states that, unlike those who oppose institutions on principle, the English firmly adhere to their established systems.
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Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
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