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Edmund Burke: Is he to be suffered, I say, to come here, and endeavor to prove the absolute falsity of his own deeds by his own…

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Is he to be suffered, I say, to come here, and endeavor to prove the absolute falsity of his own deeds by his own evidence?
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Edmund Burke

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Burke questions the legitimacy of a person attempting to disprove their own actions through their own testimony.

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