We seem to be approaching to a great crisis in our affairs, which calls for the whole wisdom of the wisest among us, without being able to assure ourselves that any wisdom can preserve us from many and great inconveniences.
Burke warns of an impending crisis that requires wisdom, acknowledging the limitations of even the wisest individuals.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.
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