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What is true of a robber is true of a rebel; and what is true of one robber or rebel is as true, and it is a much more important truth, of one hundred thousand.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke draws a parallel between robbers and rebels, emphasizing the moral equivalence in their actions.
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