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Edmund Burke: Its malignity towards humankind will subsist with undiminished heat, whilst the means of giving it effect must proceed…

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Its malignity towards humankind will subsist with undiminished heat, whilst the means of giving it effect must proceed, and every means of resisting it must inevitably and rapidly decline.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the malevolence of oppressive powers will persist even as resistance wanes.

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