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But the Regicide banditti knew that this was not the first time they have been obliged to give such assurances, and had as often falsified them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But the Regicide banditti knew that this was not the first time they have been obliged to give such assurances, and had…”
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Burke asserts that the Regicides have a history of breaking promises regarding property rights.
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