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The liberty they pursued was a liberty inseparable from order, from virtue, from morals, and from religion,--and was neither hypocritically nor fanatically followed.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes that true liberty is intertwined with order, virtue, morals, and religion.
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