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The others, the infidels, are outlaws of the constitution, not of this country, but of the human race.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The others, the infidels, are outlaws of the constitution, not of this country, but of the human race.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke categorizes infidels as fundamentally outside the bounds of constitutional society.
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