The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F. & J. Rivington, 1852 - Great Britain |
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... PARTY divisions , whether on the whole operating for good or evil , are things inseparable from free government . This is a truth which , I believe , admits little dispute , having been established by the uniform experience of all ages ...
... PARTY divisions , whether on the whole operating for good or evil , are things inseparable from free government . This is a truth which , I believe , admits little dispute , having been established by the uniform experience of all ages ...
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... parties had always negotiated ( on the true principle of credit ) not as government and subject , but as equal dealers , on the footing of mutual advantage . The public had derived great benefit from such dealing . But at that time new ...
... parties had always negotiated ( on the true principle of credit ) not as government and subject , but as equal dealers , on the footing of mutual advantage . The public had derived great benefit from such dealing . But at that time new ...
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... parties , and passions , it will necessarily excite ; and , when you open it to inquiry in one part , where the inquiry will stop ? Experience shows us , that no time can be fit for such changes but a time of general confusion ; when ...
... parties , and passions , it will necessarily excite ; and , when you open it to inquiry in one part , where the inquiry will stop ? Experience shows us , that no time can be fit for such changes but a time of general confusion ; when ...
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... party distinction , fall in with the one or the other of these leading parties . I intend to state , as shortly as I am able , the general condition of public affairs , and the disposition of the minds of men , at the time of the ...
... party distinction , fall in with the one or the other of these leading parties . I intend to state , as shortly as I am able , the general condition of public affairs , and the disposition of the minds of men , at the time of the ...
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... party than an example of justice , they blundered in the method of pursuing their vengeance . By this means a discovery was made of many practices , common indeed in the office of secretary of state , but wholly repugnant to our laws ...
... party than an example of justice , they blundered in the method of pursuing their vengeance . By this means a discovery was made of many practices , common indeed in the office of secretary of state , but wholly repugnant to our laws ...
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Page 261 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 254 - I, that when great honors and great emoluments do not win over this knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. If the spirit be not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, in mores.
Page 255 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance, in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution : and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 242 - It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles...
Page 289 - Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 290 - ... conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be.
Page 252 - ... without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound. I do not say whether they were right or wrong in applying your general arguments to their own case. It is not easy indeed to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries. The fact...
Page 175 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of 'coffee and...
Page 291 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...
Page 183 - ... Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.