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Edmund Burke: On the principle of this argument, the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration, the more our trust in it is to…

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On the principle of this argument, the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration, the more our trust in it is to be confirmed.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke challenges the logic that suffering under a government should increase trust in it.

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