Fraud is the ready minister of injustice; and whilst the currency of false pretence and sophistic reasoning was expedient to their designs, they were under no necessity of drawing upon me to furnish them with that coin.
Burke asserts that fraud serves injustice, and the usurpers do not need his assistance to perpetuate their deceit.
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