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But whatever they have put their seal on, for the purposes of their ambition, and the ruin of their neighbors, this alone is invulnerable, impassible, immortal.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that the only thing the Regicide Republic has made invulnerable is their own ambition and destructive power.
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