To speak seriously,--let me assure you, my dear Sir, that, though I am not permitted to rejoice at all its effects, there is not one man on your side of the water more pleased to see the situation of Ireland so prosperous as that she can afford to throw away her friends.
Burke expresses his mixed feelings about Ireland's prosperity and its implications for friendship.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
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