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If you treat men as robbers, why, robbers, sooner or later, they will become.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If you treat men as robbers, why, robbers, sooner or later, they will become.”
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Burke warns that treating people as criminals will eventually lead them to become what they are treated as.
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