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The report, combined with their conduct, forms an infallible criterion of the views of this republic.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The report, combined with their conduct, forms an infallible criterion of the views of this republic.”
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Burke asserts that the actions of a republic reveal its true intentions.
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