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How comes it, that now, for the first time, men think it right to be governed by the counsels of their enemies?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “How comes it, that now, for the first time, men think it right to be governed by the counsels of their enemies?”
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Burke expresses concern over the acceptance of advice from adversaries in governance.
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