But on all sides we separated the means from the end: and we separated the cause of the moderate and rational from the ill-intentioned and seditious, which on such occasions are so frequently apt to march together.
Burke emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between legitimate and seditious causes in political discourse.
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Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
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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