Horne Tooke and Jacobins

Horne Tooke said that his friends might, if they pleased, go as far as / Slough, -- he should go no farther than Hounslow; but that was no reason why / he should not keep them company so far as their roads were the same. The / answer is easy. Suppose you know, or suspect, that a man is about to commit / a robbery at Slough, though you do not mean to be his accomplice, have you / a moral right to walk arm in arm with him to Hounslow, and, by thus giving / him your countenance, prevent his being taken up? The history of all the / world tells us, that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

Enlist the interests of stern morality and religious enthusiasm in the / cause of political liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will / be irresistible; but the Jacobins played the whole game of religion, and / morals, and domestic happiness into the hands of the aristocrats. Thank / God! that they did so. England was saved from civil war by their enormous, / their providential, blundering.