In short, I see nothing in the executive force (I cannot call it authority) that has even an appearance of vigor, or that has the smallest degree of just correspondence or symmetry or amicable relation with the supreme power, either as it now exists, or as it is planned for the future government.
Burke expresses his lack of faith in the vigor of the current executive power.
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Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
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