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The truth is, these politics are rotten and hollow at bottom, as all that are founded upon any however minute a degree of positive injustice must ever be.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The truth is, these politics are rotten and hollow at bottom, as all that are founded upon any however minute a degree…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques certain political ideologies as fundamentally flawed due to their basis in injustice.
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