I am satisfied beyond a doubt, that the project of turning a great empire into a vestry, or into a collection of vestries, and of governing it in the spirit of a parochial administration, is senseless and absurd, in any mode or with any qualifications.
He asserts that transforming a vast empire into a collection of small administrative units is both nonsensical and impractical.
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The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
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