If I did more, it might be supposed, by my anxiety to clear myself, that I had imbibed the ideas which, for obvious reasons, the right honorable gentleman wishes to have received concerning all attempts to plead the cause of the natives of India, as if it were a disreputable employment.
Burke defends his position against accusations that advocating for Indian natives is disreputable, highlighting the importance of their cause.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
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