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I therefore wish to ask what hope we can have of their good faith, who, as the very basis of the negotiation, assume the ill faith and treachery of those they have to deal with?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the sincerity of negotiations when one party assumes the other is untrustworthy.
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