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With a fixed design they have outlawed themselves, and to their power outlawed all other nations.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “With a fixed design they have outlawed themselves, and to their power outlawed all other nations.”
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Burke claims that France has effectively declared itself an outlaw among nations.
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