My whole politics, at present, centre in one point, and to this the merit or demerit of every measure (with me) is referable,--that is, what will most promote or depress the cause of Jacobinism.
Burke reveals that his political focus is centered on opposing Jacobinism, indicating a clear ideological stance.
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Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.
It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
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