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But they tell us, that those our fellow-citizens whose chains we have a little relaxed are enemies to liberty and our free Constitution.--Not enemies, I presume, to their own liberty.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues against the notion that those who have been granted some liberties are enemies to freedom and the Constitution.
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