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Edmund Burke: “There are many things which men do not approve, that they must do to avoid a greater evil.”

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There are many things which men do not approve, that they must do to avoid a greater evil.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke acknowledges that people often must do things they disapprove of to avoid worse outcomes.

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