Let us examine into the value of this security upon the principles of those who are more sober,--of those who think, indeed, the French Constitution better, or at least as good as the British, without going to all the lengths of the warmer politicians in reprobating their own.
Burke suggests examining the value of security from a more moderate perspective.
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