The taking away of a vote is the taking away the shield which the subject has, not only against the oppression of power, but that worst of all oppressions, the persecution of private society and private manners.
Burke emphasizes the importance of voting as a safeguard against oppression and societal persecution.
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Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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