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Every new magistracy, succeeding by homicide, is auspicated by accusing its predecessors in the office of tyranny, and it continues by the exercise of what they charged upon others.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke comments on the cycle of tyranny and accusation among magistrates in revolutionary France.
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