Unquestionably, we should be perfectly satisfied, when we were told that Houses of Parliament, instead of being places of refuge for popular liberty, were citadels for keeping us in order as a conquered people.
Burke critiques the role of Parliament in maintaining control over the populace rather than protecting their liberties.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.
This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!
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