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Never did a serious plan of amending of any old tyrannical establishment propose the authors and abettors of the abuses as the reformers of them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Never did a serious plan of amending of any old tyrannical establishment propose the authors and abettors of the abuses…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques the notion of reforming a system by placing its original abusers in charge of the reform process.
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