So that no constitution-fancier may go unsuited from his shop, provided he loves a pattern of pillage, oppression, arbitrary imprisonment, confiscation, exile, revolutionary judgment, and legalized premeditated murder, in any shapes into which they can be put.
Burke condemns the exploitation and oppression that can arise from certain political ideologies.
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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.
Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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