Edmund Burke: “When tyranny is extreme, and abuses of government intolerable, men…”

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When tyranny is extreme, and abuses of government intolerable, men resort to the rights of Nature to shake it off.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that extreme tyranny drives people to reclaim their natural rights.

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Edmund Burke: “When tyranny is extreme, and abuses of government intolerable, men resort to the rights of Nature to shake it off.”