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Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you have your evidence-room full of titles, and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke challenges the notion that having legal titles and military power justifies the enforcement of claims.
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