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From Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings, by Edmund Burke

CAST OFF

"From their disgust at men, they are soon led to quarrel with their frame of government, which they presume gives nourishment to the vices, real or supposed, of those who administer in it.  Mistaking malignity for sagacity. they are soon led to cast off all hope from a good administration of affairs, and come to think all reformation depends, not on a change of actors, but upon an alteration in the machinery.  Then will be felt the full effect of encouraging doctrines which tend to make the citizens despise their constitution."

From An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs