We, the people, ought to be made sensible that it is not in breaking the laws of commerce, which are the laws of Nature, and consequently the laws of God, that we are to place our hope of softening the Divine displeasure to remove any calamity under which we suffer or which hangs over us.
Burke emphasizes the importance of adhering to natural laws and commerce rather than seeking divine intervention through lawbreaking.
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In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.
To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
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.
Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
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