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So much is this the design, that the violent partisans of this scheme fairly take up all the maxims and arguments, as well as the practices, by which tyranny has fortified itself at all times.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the tactics of tyrants who manipulate established arguments for their gain.
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