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Edmund Burke: “In other words, they are powerful to usurp, impotent to restore; and equally by their power and their impotence they…”

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In other words, they are powerful to usurp, impotent to restore; and equally by their power and their impotence they aggrandize themselves, and weaken and impoverish you and all other nations.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke describes the paradox of the Regicide Republic's power to usurp but impotence to restore order.

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