It must always be, to those who are the greatest amateurs, or even professors, of revolutions, a matter very hard to prove, that the late French government was so bad that nothing worse in the infinite devices of men could come in its place.
Burke challenges the notion that the French government was so flawed that it warranted revolution.
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An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?
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.
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