They who go out can never long with zeal and good-will support government in the hands of those they hate.
Edmund Burke: “They who go out can never long with zeal and good-will support government in the hands of those they hate.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke observes that those who leave a government cannot genuinely support it if they harbor animosity towards it.
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