Nothing is more natural than that a man, sensible of his duty to himself and his subjects, should form a scheme to get rid of a band of robbers that were destroying his country and degrading and ruining his family.
Burke asserts that it is natural for a ruler to seek to eliminate those who threaten his country and family.
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Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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