The warm parties in each state were more affectionately attached to those of their own doctrinal interest in some other country than to their fellow-citizens or to their natural government, when they or either of them happened to be of a different persuasion.
Burke observes that strong party affiliations often led to greater loyalty to foreign doctrinal interests than to one's own government.
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But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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