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Edmund Burke: The rights and liberties she was bound to maintain are now a system of wrong and tyranny which she is bound to destroy.

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The rights and liberties she was bound to maintain are now a system of wrong and tyranny which she is bound to destroy.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques the failure of a government to uphold the rights and liberties of its people, suggesting a moral obligation to rectify tyranny.

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