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It is not easy to find or to conceive governments more mild and indulgent than these Church sovereignties; but good government is as nothing, when the rights of man take possession of the mind.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that even the most benevolent governments can be undermined by the overwhelming influence of the concept of human rights.
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