If this be my opinion as to the Catholic religion as a sect, you must see that I must be to the last degree averse to put a man, upon that account, upon a bad footing with relation to the privileges which the fundamental laws of this country give him as a subject.
Burke expresses his aversion to discriminating against individuals based on their religious beliefs.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
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.
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