The amount of our danger, therefore, it would be impolitic to conceal from the people. It was the first duty of ministers to make it known, and after doing so, it should have been their study to provide against it, and to point out the means to the country by which it might be averted.
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We owe our present happiness and prosperity, which has never been equalled in the annals of mankind, to a mixture of monarchical government.
Permalink to quote #6 I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will…
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