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But it was necessary, in giving security to robbers, that honest men should be deprived of all hope of restitution; and thus their interests were made utterly and eternally incompatible.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that securing robbers leads to the hopelessness of honest individuals seeking restitution.
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