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Nor is the new state, fabricated by such arts, safer than the old.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Nor is the new state, fabricated by such arts, safer than the old.”
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Burke argues that newly formed states through deceitful means are not safer than the old ones they replace.
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