They insist that even the war which with so much boldness they have declared against all nations is to prevent the poor from becoming the instruments and victims of these persons and descriptions.
Burke asserts that Jacobins justify their wars as a means to protect the poor from exploitation by the elite.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
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