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Edmund Burke: “No: it is not by means which belong only to thieves and despots that the foundations of liberty can be laid in an…”

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No: it is not by means which belong only to thieves and despots that the foundations of liberty can be laid in an enslaved country.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke argues that true liberty cannot be established through oppressive means.

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