The spoil of the Church was now become the only resource of all their operations in finance, the vital principle of all their politics, the sole security for the existence of their power.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that the confiscated wealth of the Church became the foundational element for the National Assembly's financial operations, political strategies, and continued authority.
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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.
When such an unwarrantable maxim is once established, that no throne is lawful but the elective, no one act of the princes who preceded this era of fictitious election can be valid.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
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