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Edmund Burke: “But I believe that this injured writer will think it not at all inconsistent with his present duty or with his former…”

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But I believe that this injured writer will think it not at all inconsistent with his present duty or with his former life strenuously to oppose all the various partisans of destruction, let them begin where or when or how they will.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke expresses his commitment to oppose any threats to the Constitution, regardless of their origin.

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