The woods are wasted, the country is ravaged, property is confiscated, and the people are put to bear a double yoke, in the exactions of a tyrannical government and in the contributions of an hostile irruption.
Burke vividly describes the devastation caused by a tyrannical government and foreign invasion.
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If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.
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.
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