But, fortunately, her walls, bulwarks, and bastions are constructed of other materials than of stubble and straw,--are built up with the strong and stable matter of the gospel of liberty, and founded on a true, constitutional, legal establishment.
Burke argues that the true strength of the Church lies in its foundational principles of liberty and constitutional law, rather than superficial defenses.
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To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.
Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
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