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Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power are alike criminal; and there is no man but is bound to resist it to the best of his power, wherever it shall show its face to the world.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke declares that both those who grant and those who accept arbitrary power are culpable and must resist it.
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