The failure, perhaps, in part, was owing to his suffering his system to be vitiated and disturbed by those intrigues which it is, humanly speaking, impossible wholly to prevent in courts, or indeed under any form of government.
Burke points out that court intrigues can undermine even the best systems of governance.
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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.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.
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