On the record
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
Source
gutenberg.orgNo: it is not by means which belong only to thieves and despots that the foundations of liberty can be laid in an enslaved country.
Burke argues that true liberty cannot be established through oppressive means.
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