You would have shamed despotism from the earth, by showing that freedom was not only reconcilable, but, as, when well disciplined, it is, auxiliary to law.
Edmund Burke: “You would have shamed despotism from the earth, by showing that freedom was not only reconcilable, but, as, when well…”
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Burke argues that a disciplined freedom, auxiliary to law, would have served as a powerful example against despotism.
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