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In the ordinary state of things, it produces in a country like ours the worst effects, even on the cause of that liberty which it abuses with the dissoluteness of an extravagant speculation.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that in normal circumstances, excessive speculation can harm the very liberty it seeks to promote.
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