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The magistrates, utterly incapable of distinguishing the friends from the enemies of order, would in vain look for support, when they stood in the greatest need of it.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke highlights the inability of magistrates to discern allies from adversaries during a crisis, leading to a lack of support.
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