In restoring order and justice, everything like retaliation ought to be religiously avoided; and an example ought to be set of a total alienation from the Jacobin proceedings in their accursed revolutionary tribunals.
Burke calls for avoiding retaliation and distancing from revolutionary practices in restoring order.
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We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Who could conceive that men who are habitually meddling, daring, subtle, active, of litigious dispositions and unquiet minds, would easily fall back into their old condition of obscure contention, and laborious, low, and unprofitable…
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
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